Originally Posted by caucasian_invasion
Is there anyway to retrieve any of my files? Also, how much might a new hard drive for my laptop run me (just a ballpark)?
Sure, if you want to pay a good deal of money for a skilled technician to try and do data recovery. For a new laptop hd, I'm gonna guess ~ $150 or so. I've never had to replace the hd on a laptop though, so don't exactly hold me to that.