Hard Drive fell. Recovery?

Ironische en stomme is dat ik mijn systeemschijf (de SSD) altijd heb gebackupt, en de HD niet. Maar daar staan wel al mijn foto's, opnames, en muziek, en andere dingen op. Enorm belangrijk dus, ik wil dat weer terughebben.
My bag with a 15" MacBook Pro from 2010 fell. It has an SSD and a conventional hard drive on the place of the SuperDrive. In the lower left corner there's a ding. When it fell, the Macbook was asleep, and as I woke it up it said something like "disk unsecurely ejected", and the system didn't detect the HD anymore.
A minute later the trackpad and the keyboard froze, but I could force a restart with the on/off button. The system works fine again, but the hard drive doesn't work. Normally it gives a "click" when booting up, and I hear it rotating. Now nothing like that.
When I open up the MacBook Pro, I don't see anything unusual physically (with my untrained eyes).
The ironical and stupid thing is that I backed up my SSD with the system and never the files-HD. But it has all my photographs, music, and other files that are very important to me. So I want to recover it.
Has anyone any tips please?

You need to have Apple (or an Apple Authorized Service Provider) take a look at it. 
If the drive is damaged, and they replace it, be sure to get the damaged one back; some of the data may be recoverable (but it won't be cheap or quick).    See Data Recovery.

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