Hard Drive Gone

Hello,

I have just given my Dell computer to someone to check for virus as it wasn’t running quite as it should. I am not very technically and wanted him to help me back everything up before hand. He said it would be fine and no data would be compromise.....you guessed it I got a call telling me the worst had happen the hard drive must have been damaged in transit and all my work has gone.

I have been launching a company over the last 18 month so the amount of work on there is huge plus all the photos of my children over the last 2 years, I am distraught. I had done one back up on a external hard drive but the was only my documents and as if it could get any worst the main files with about 80% of my work have not copied across HELP is there a way of getting the data off it?? Where could I take it to?

From one very upset lady!!