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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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[–] [deleted] • 2 pts (edited )

Try using a piece of free software called Autopsy. It's for forensically exploring data on hard disks. The popo use it to discover illegal images etc. I've used it to recover files on damaged disks with decent recovery. Hiren's boot CD might be able to help you as well. Hope you're able to recover your stuff- backup to an external drive and/or a cloud service (if you use them)

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Also Photorec (can scan for more than just images, you select the filetypes it scans for). I imagine OP's drive is probably mostly fine, so he'll probably be able to mount it and copy files normally, with a little minor repair.