so you're saying there's a chance....

My attempts to get my data off my hard drive failed.

We took it back to the Apple Store and the guy there told us that he could no longer see my data and that my MacBook had officially crashed. He said my only option was to visit TaylorMark (a place that does data recovery on Macs).

We drove home yesterday and I was literally in tears thinking of all the things I might lose on my computer. I was completely devasted hearing that my hard drive was completely crashed.

We dropped my computer off at TaylorMark this morning and they told me there was an 85% chance that my data could be recovered. They called me this evening and said that step 1 of 4 went well and they were cautiously hopeful they would be able to retrieve all my data.