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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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These are the troubleshooting answers BIOS gave me:

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

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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.