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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] • 6 pts

Need more info. What does corrupt mean exactly here?

Without any info, I'll post the following old trick I've used before. Using your favorite Linux distro, use dd to copy a disk image and mount it, then perform diagnostics or recovery on the image without risking further damage to the data or drive.

I'll check back later for a reply and may have other options for you.

[–] • 0 pt

Why is everyone telling me to use Linux? What does it do and can it recover my data?

[–] • 3 pts

It's less user friendly. Much like an apple product is supposed to be way more user friendly, and therefore has many unnecessary restrictions upon it.

There's no GOOD reason an iPhone shouldn't plug into a Windows computer, and showup as a usb drive. Exactly like any other device would.

Same way my android phone should show up as a usb drive on my friends apple laptops

But it doesn't

Linux doesn't do that shit, and there's way more tools that do things easily..

Also you can jeasily have Linux on a bootdisx, or usb drive for specifically doing stuff like this.

It can even look like windows. I used lindoze distribution for a while.

But you have to know what you are doing more with Linux, than windows, or an apple product.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

See Anticlutch's answer below. Linux is an operating system with more useful but dangerous tools at your disposal. You can boot from USB or CD and more. Now that we have your specific error, follow his advice first and report back. I'm not well versed with efi cause I'm an old fuck.

[–] • 0 pt

These are the troubleshooting answers BIOS gave me:

error code 0xc0000185 EFI Hard Drive (WDC WD10SPZX-24Z10) Boot Failed

[–] • 1 pt

https://www.lifewire.com/fix-error-code-0xc0000185-4691254 It's just a boot file corruption. You can fix the entire boot system with the windows disk. If that doesn't work but that is the issue then the data is still perfectly fine and readable. Unless you had it encrypted, then you're likely slightly fucked, but potentially not.

If unencrypted AND it's just boot files fubared then you can use a recovery program like recuva to scan the drive and recover the files. You'll need a second hard drive of at minimum equal size to the corrupted one to copy the files to.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Fucking efi. Last time I had a boot corruption, I dd'd the boot sector, fixed it, then wrote it back to the disk. Worked like a charm but efi... I set up a dual boot once with it and hoped never to have to dick with it again.