My iMac (late 2010 model) desktop's hard drive is fried (was about 200GB). How much am I expecting to pay for a new one and retrieve my information?

As you can see Erin, trying to recover information from a hosed drive can be very expensive.
I would suggest first the OWC site as well. You can get a new drive of choice in size there.
I would also get the voyager http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/VOYQHDB1.0T/
and..
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Prosoft%20Engineering/DGDR3BUN/
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/TOOLKIT11/
Wth your lap top and these folllowing tools your are set to change out the drive, reload OS and then with
the voyager pop in the old iMac drive and with the Prosoft software, try to mount and recover the files. Data Rescue is very good at this " if " the drive is not totally mechanically hosed. Drive Genius is very good at a number of things too. Nothing replaces the old adage of Back Up Back up Back up.
The voyage I listed can become the new backup drive for you.. your choice of tools: Time Machine or by cloning via CarbonCopyCloner or by what I use SuperDuper! IF you want to be really kewl.. both. By that I mean cloning and Time Machine.
It will take you an hour to swap out the drive and spring clean the iMac.. there is a hundred how too,s on you tube.
Hope this helps. Remember if is always when a drive will fail..they all do. I tell the people I support that Harddrives are good for 15 min.. to when they don't work. They will all fail.
Apple Geniuses are very limited to what they can and will do as far as file recovery.
Your best bet is to try to do it your self first. There is lots of help out here and you are not the first.
Don

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Nowadays a 3.5" SATA drive with 1 TB of storage space is under $70.00 depending upon cache size and spindle speed. Enterprise level drives will cost more since they come with a longer warranty and have a heavier use capability. These are desktop drives.
Your profile suggests you have a laptop model. Notebook sized drives are more expensive.
Look at OWC to find suitable replacement drives and prices dependent upon what you need. It's hard to provide you the correct information because you did not tell us what type of drive needs replacing.

How much am I expecting to pay for a new 200-500GB hard drive?

Is it possible for me to get it done under $500 (as in new hard drive and installation) as my other one is fried
I have rang Apple and told me this was the problem
Also if anyone knows how to retrieve all the photo's and documents as they haven't been backed-up please do so, it would save me a whole lot of trouble!

500 GB is pretty small by current standards. A raw drive will be well under $100.
Installation on an iMac is a somewhat involved procedure. It can be DIY, but it is very complicated and you need good instructions. However, get some quotes from a computer repair shop. I am guessing that the labor will also be under $100. An Apple Store will want much more.
You might also consider using an external FW800 drive if the internal drive is really toast. You can use a USB 2 drive but it will be pretty slow.
If the computer still boots and more or less runs, MAKE A CLONE NOW. you can do this on a USB 2 drive of sufficient capacity. I use CarbonCopyCloner.
You can then reformat the internal drive and clone it back to see if that has helped anything.
If the internal drive really is dead, then recovery of the data is possible but it will be expensive and it may not yield all, or any of, your data.

I don't see my hard drive in finder , i wanna know how much hard drive space i have.

i don't see my hard drive in finder , i wanna know how much hard drive space i have.

Check the settings in the General and Sidebar tabs of the Finder's preferences.
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first - go to system preferences - startup disk and select your hard drive as the startup drive....restart your macbook....
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I have a whitemacbook 13-inch 2010 model. The hard drive crashed right before my final was due. It was not Photoshop, although 2 GB was not near enough to run it, but a corrupted file on the hard drive. should i get a new hard drive, or a new computer?

I have a limited budget. should I just replace the hard drive and get more RAM, and keep it going for
2-3 years? (this was a suggestion from the tech guy at school) or go ahead and buy a mac mini to get me through school? Or splurge and get a new iMac? I dont want to invest too much too soon due to the law of obsoletion, and of course my limited finances.

Well as I suspected I love OWC company I pulled out the mac hard drive , they offered me a Macdrive free trial program to check your drive on PC Windows and yesSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS it all there nothing lost
woohooooo , thank you but nothing is dead, when you have faith , this was a prayer answered big time I wanted a pro so much and I get to use my 500 plust 250 plus 120 GB drives all of them
ladies and gentlemen and I get to keep the 2 GB in from my macbook 13 inch and sell all the parts
yipeee
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Drop the folder you recovered onto the iPhoto icon in the Dock. If iPhoto opens and you see your library then you've dodged a bullet. If iPhoto doesn't open then you'll have to start over with a new library.
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OT

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One thing to realize is that the "Webprocess" consuming mass qualities of CPU will come and go depending on the pages you are browsing. It shouldn't do that high CPU constantly only periodically. Some simple pages will take very little, very complex pages with lots of images and flash and ads and other misc stuff can make the CPU usage soar. But that's hard/impossible to predict, so just keep an eye on it and you'll get a feel for pages you might want to avoid and pages that are no big deal to process.
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