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Ken,
Hopefully, a data recovery service will be able to recover the data from the drive for you.
It's a bit late for your current problem (at least, until you can recover your data), but have you considered using an online backup solution?
I use my free Google Drive storage to save everything that is important to me - I have unlimited storage space for photos (which are accessible through Google Photos), virtually unlimited storage space for music (because I have a Google Play Music subscription), and the remaining free storage (15 GB by default; but you often get more if you link a new Android device or similar) is ample for backing up my other critical files. All I have to do is link the relevant folders on my devices with my Google Drive account, and the back-up is done for me - and of course, all files are accessible from any internet-connected device. (Microsoft OneDrive, DropBox, etc can also be used as free alternatives with similar functionality.)
I still do back-ups myself, but I figure Google's servers are probably more reliable than the cheap drive that I bought at Harvey Norman.
This may not be a viable free / cheap option if you are not happy with the idea of "sharing" your personal data with Google (or Microsoft or whoever) - but I don't really worry about someone at Google looking at my holiday pictures! Also, the free storage quota may not be sufficient if you have hundreds of GB of data that needs to be backed up, but since Google doesn't count my photos or music, it works for me.
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