How much will it cost to replace my hard drive?

My wife dropped my Macbook Pro from countertop hight and the screen cracked so I sent it into iresQ and got the screen replaced for cheep and my computer was lagging bad still. I asked apple what the problem was and they told me that a lens on my hard drive was probably cracked and I should replace my hard drive soon before real problems start to emerge. I did all this over the phone and forgot to ask about cost, this is why I'm posting here.

I asked apple what the problem was and they told me that a lens on my hard drive was probably cracked and I should replace my hard drive soon before real problems start to emerge.
Sorry, "lens"? There is no "lens" in any hard drive. "Lens" could only apply to the DVD-R optical drive. Not to say that the hard drive might not have been damaged in the fall, but there is no "lens", so either someone misheard or someone misspoke.
Before you pay to replace the hard drive, do some basic troubleshooting. Boot your system from the Mac OS X install disk, run Disk Utility, and have it verify the drive. If the drive comes back without errors, the problem is more likely to be software related rather than hardware, though a hardware problem cannot be ruled out. You probably should back up your important data, reformat the drive, and reinstall Mac OS X and your applications and data and then see where things stand.
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