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Rich, you're in good hands with SIW2 and PaulBlack, so I won't butt in except to say that I don't think you're "hosed". It's not like the files you want aren't readable, it's only a matter of figuring out the right way to get at them when Windows itself won't boot. If all your attempts are futile, a competent shop should be able to copy them off for you.
It may be a bit more complicated because, IIRC, Dell's Ultrabooks use M.2 SSDs, so it's not as simple as popping out a traditional hard drive and putting it in an external enclosure to plug into another machine. But a competent shop should still be able to do it.
Just as a point of clarification, note there's a distinction between this and what most people refer to as "data recovery services". The latter more often refers to special laboratory techniques to try and coax a failing hard drive to give up its data when it's becoming unreadable. In your case the data isn't unreadable, you just have to figure out the right working environment to get at it.