IPod Nano data recovery

Hi. I own an iPod Nano, and yesterday, I accidentally dropped it into a sink. It flashed a message about firewire connections and prompty shut off. Now, I tried to turn it on, about 5 times, and plugged it in once, so it's probably gone. But here's my real problem. I just reformatted my computer, and the nano was backup to about 3 years worth of stuff. So what I'm wondering it, is there any way to get data recovery for it? Will Apple do that? I can't use software cause the nano is completely unresponsive. Any ideas? I don't mind if I don't get my nano back.

Well, I shook all the water out of it, and I let it sit for a day or two. Then one morning I connected it in a dock (That helped for some reason, as it was vertical), My computer flashed that there was a USB device connected, and I got all my files back. Now the idea is get a really firm connection. Bumping the nano would cause it to disconnect and stop the recovery. But the nano was fried anyway. Screen failed, only backlight works, to start I need to reset. My advice? Make sure you let it dry out. However, since I had taken my pc for repair, the songs were on the drive directly, so it was just a cut and paste situation. But, there are programs that can extract the data. you can also enable show hidden files in Windows XP to see your songs, although their Tags are messed up.
Hope that helps.
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