How can I get files from my "no entry" MacBook Pro?

I've got a MacBook Pro A1286 that I got a couple of years ago. It crashed with the "no entry" sign recently.
It's insured so it'll be getting fixed in the next week or so, but they're not sure if they'll be able to recover the data, so I'd like to try myself first.
It suddenly went kaput, when I go to Disk Utility in the recovery mode, it says everything is OK, but I went through in terminal and it keeps endlessly trying to access the drive and can't. It can see that the drive's there, but can't access it at all.
I don't have another Mac, nor an external drive, so I'm not sure how I could go about recovering my files. I was going to try burning an ISO of Disk Drill to a DVD and booting from that, but I'm not sure that's possible.

See mount section. You can run this from Terminal in Recovery.
Disk Unmount Using Terminal
Disk Utility – Force Mount Disk

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