I'm going to recover photos off a broken drive without first telling the customer the price first
Why be such a bad tech when you can be a good tech?
There is nothing to be stolen off the drive. The drive was thrown around and it wasn't kept inside a safe place since I told them I wouldn't recover any data and it would be risky and expensive (true).
You shouldn't deceive your customers this way. You are breaching someone's privacy by lying to them and recovering photos they're not aware of. You could be heavily fined or sued for doing things you weren't told to do.
Lol I'm only doing it as a trial and also I promised them I wouldn't find any data on it and it would be risky and expensive so ?
Even so, it's wrong and you will eventually get caught. Thinking about it is almost the same as doing it.