Noooooooooooooooooo
All the reputable disk recovery companies will give you a free evaluation, and if disk recovery is not possible, there will be no charge. Kinda like no-pass, no-charge smog stations ;-)
So best bet is to look up a disk recover-er, take tha drive to them and say, gimme my data! how much! then they look at it and say XX dollars, IF we can do it.
PS: There seems to be a nifty article here:
pcstats.com regarding Disk Recovery.