Discussion $1500 and no-can-do quotes for a 2-minute data recovery with freeware

A user mistakenly deleted a partition using "Diskpart clean" (not clean all), and he then approached two data recovery companies to reinstate his deleted partition. One company told him that they weren't able to do it and referred him to another company which quoted him US$1200 plus $300 for a replacement HDD.

The user declined the quote and subsequently recovered his drive in 2 minutes using freeware.

Here are the explanations offered by other data recovery professionals:

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecove...really_use_some_help_with_partition_recovery/ (original thread)
https://groups.google.com/g/datarecoverycertification/c/sWyBJBk8Hbg (discussion by DR pros)

What do people think?