How can I recover my data from my hard drive

About 2 weeks ago I was uploading pictures to my computer when it froze.
I turned it off by holding down the power key, and started it up again.
It hasn't gone past the apple screen and the spinning dial since.
I have tried all the troubleshooting myself safe boot, firewire everything you can find through these threads.
After failing with all of these methods I took it into the apple store and they said that it would not appear on there machine.
So I have removed my hard drive and put it into an external case and hooked it up via usb and replaced my hard drive in my macbook.
Now when I hook my old drive (with all my files on it) up to my macbook now the old drive shows up but it will not show any of my files.
IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN RETRIEVE MY FILES ASIDE FROM GOING THE ADVANCED DATA RECOVERY ROUTE AND SPENDING THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS?????

From your long tale of woe, I take you are not backing up your data. Bad idea that.
After everything you have done it sound like your disk is in need of some kind of data recovery
Before going to a service you might try Data Rescue, http://data-recovery-software-review.toptenreviews.com/mac-recovery-software/dat a-rescue-review.html first. While there are some free data recovery program available, remember you get what you pay for.
If that doesn't work then send it out to a service for recovery
Then you might want to start planning a backup solution for the future
Remeber lose of data is a certainty. The only question is when
Allan

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