What you have to consider is that doing this kind of thing will not physically damage your PC at all. The worst case is that you loose all your data. So what you have to ask yourself is "Is my data worth x Amount that PC repair guy is going to charge"
Personally I would say give PC a wide berth. I know someone who went top work in my local one repairing PC's. His previous experiance of PC's was selling fridges in Currys and playing an xbox. Dispite having 0 pc knowledge he was given the job and a manual to work from !!!!!
You also have to be warry that alot of people advertise PC repair in the Friday-ad who have very little experiance (again I know someone who went in to it after owning their first PC for 2 weeks because they heard how much money was in it. Headache for me as constant calls of how do I do this or that !
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I guess what im saying is even if you do get an 'expert' in, there is no garantee that they wont loose your data either.
Lesson to be learnt? BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP !!!!!!
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