[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[Bruce Richardson]

Say, my sister has a dell laptop in which the HD won't boot. She
went to Best Buy and their Geek Squad sent it (the HD) to their
regional data recovery center in Louisville (with a clean room).
They gave a quote of $1600 to recover the data off of it.
That is beyond reasonable for her.

Have any you been down this road and found anyplace that recovered
your data with a price closer to what you thought reasonable??  I
know, there are varying levels of damage requiring varying levels
of response.

My expectation was in the $400-$600 range.  What have your
experiences been if you had to submit to professional data
recovery?

Thanks,
Bruce Richardson W9FZ