T410s - Recovering Dead HDD

My T410s which had shutdown quite normally and didn't give any indication of problems died suddenly with a blue screen of death. I tried rebooting in different safe modes, The disk is cold dead and inaccessible even as a slave drive on another computer. My tech support person said he tried to "freeze" (as is low temperature) the HDD in the hope that it might jiggle the platters back to action. Didn't work either.
Any suggestions on recovering files from the disk since I have some files that I really need?
My tech support says that since data is encrypted, even a data recovery service will be unable to read the files. But I wonder whether such folks couldn't do a bit-level copy to another disk which I can then read off as a slave drive?
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I'm NOT an employee of Best Buy, or Geek Squad, though I did work as an Agent for a year 5 years ago. None of my posts are to be taken as the official stance that Best Buy will take on your situation. My advice is just that, advice.
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ress any key to stop auto-boot...
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