On Not Using Anything But The Manufacturer's Power Pack w/My Very Valuable Exhdd

yeap. that's what happened. perhaps not so dramatically, but that's what it felt like. i stupidly tried to use a third party variable-voltage power pack in one of my exhdds. nothing happened at first, which is bad, then i tried the one manufacturer's pack i have that has a europlug and the led on the front of the drive casing just flashed weakly. it was the tech equivalent of the death rattle. the damage is all the images i had. everything. work, photos, play, miscellaneous stuff. most is on the web, but some isn't. especially older stuff. and i have no backups. i'm so dumb. after trying numerous things with the aide of pascal, my studio mate, we/he came to the conclusion that it is dead dead dead. there is maybe one recourse left to me, but pursuing it depends on the cost. there are firms that can open the hard drive up and place it in a new casing and see if the drive will work. keep your fingers crossed.
i am a virgin no longer. do i get a t-shirt now? or a special decoder ring?