Reply #9: Well, the going rate for a job like that is about $2,000. If you [View All]

[ladjf]

aren't already in that business, perhaps you should consider a career change. The guy could trash his hard drive, replace it with the cheapest he could find, drop an OS on it.

And by the way, the $2,000 rate is just cases where the boot track is missing or some minor thing like that. In the case of a drive, smashed with a hammer, you'd have to be a hell of a technician to recover that. In the first place the disk wouldn't even be able to spin. It would have to be re flattened without destroying the pattern.
I'm suspicious that you are just bragging. But, maybe not. I'm no authority on the subject.