Are you sure it's completely dead? I dropped one of mine and screwed it up pretty bad but I was able to recover most of the movies (even with errors the mkv just shows a slight glitch and still play through)
I used a program called GetDataBack, it recovered everything pretty well and without me having to do too much.
asus z170-A || core i5-6600K || geforce gtx 970 4gb || 16gb ddr4 ram || win10 || 1080p led samsung 27"