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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] • 1 pt

Get your laptop back, buy a hard disk and put it in yourself. Easy peasy. Dude will probably put some illegal kmspico windows bootleg on your drive and you'll have to deal with that crap forever. That happened to me. I wanted to kill the dude. It worked but it's a pain in the arse.

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Also, you can probably reinstall Windows for free because your system will have a product key on it, or a built-in hardware key that Windows recognizes.