Hard Drive Crashes STINK!

My 200 gig drive crashed Monday and I'm ready to just jump off a cliff! I have had no sleep for the last week trying to deal with it. Tomorrow is Friday School and I'm not even close to being ready for it. All the Friday School pictures I took are all gone too. Thank goodness I have this laptop if not I'd really be going crazy with no computer. If only there were a recovery program that didn't cost 130 bucks. The one my husband picked up won't work and since we opened it we can't return it. I just don't want to throw more money away on something else that won't work. You know what I mean. Well back to beating on my hard drive. Wish me luck and pray for my sanity.