Linux is the easiest way to do this. One of my wife's coworker's laptops went dead just like yours, wouldn't even boot into Windows at all. She had all sorts of wedding plans and stuff on there. I booted into Knoppix and you can "force read" the data even if the drive is corrupt. I got literally every single file off of it using this.
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Off the record, on the q.t., and very hush-hush.
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