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If you have a local data recovery service provided by a local repair shop that would be one pay a few option to get what can be saved from the drive before seeing it tossed. You simply provide the blank dvds or another spare drive to see things recovered to.
Personally I end up not only storing thing on separate drives but seem to end up sharing a good number of files between machines here. If one system goes down I could still recover just about anything on short notice!