New 1TB SSD is somewhere in the $85 range. External hard disk drive(hdd) enclosure is like$15. You should be able to recover data from it. I would go the Ubuntu on a USB flash drive route as mentioned, but you probably need someone to walk you through that if your not a pc geek. Edit: I have done this a few times. Last time I was only the get 3/4 of the 3TB hdd recovered.
Of course, the only sane thing to do is backup data. A single copy is just asking for data loss. Tiny 4TB external USB 3 drives are cheap and make it trivial to do regular backups.
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