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TL;DR: BSOD on Lenovo Laptop. BIOS gave me 2 different reasons: error code 0xc0000185 EFI Hard Drive (WDC WD10SPZX-24Z10) Boot Failed

Took laptop to a local repair shop. Guy said HD messed up his diagnostic testing machine, HD is shot and he can't recover any data. Told me to ship it to a specialist company in California for anywhere between $200-800. He wants $150 to swap out the old HD for a used Solid State HD and diagnostic testing, plus parts/labor and I'll get my old HD back too. I HAVE NOT PAID HIM YET. He still has my laptop.

**EDIT** TL;DR: BSOD on Lenovo Laptop. BIOS gave me 2 different reasons: *error code 0xc0000185* *EFI Hard Drive (WDC WD10SPZX-24Z10) Boot Failed* Took laptop to a local repair shop. Guy said HD messed up his diagnostic testing machine, HD is shot and he can't recover any data. Told me to ship it to a specialist company in California for anywhere between $200-800. He wants $150 to swap out the old HD for a used Solid State HD and diagnostic testing, plus parts/labor and I'll get my old HD back too. I HAVE NOT PAID HIM YET. He still has my laptop.

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[–] 2 pts (edited )

New 1TB SSD is somewhere in the $85 range. External hard disk drive(hdd) enclosure is like$15. You should be able to recover data from it. I would go the Ubuntu on a USB flash drive route as mentioned, but you probably need someone to walk you through that if your not a pc geek. Edit: I have done this a few times. Last time I was only the get 3/4 of the 3TB hdd recovered.

[–] 1 pt

Of course, the only sane thing to do is backup data. A single copy is just asking for data loss. Tiny 4TB external USB 3 drives are cheap and make it trivial to do regular backups.