Laptop hard drive broken - what to do?

If the hard drive in your laptop is broken, you will have to replace it in most cases. In this practical tip we will show you which option is still available.

You can do this if your laptop hard drive is broken

1. In this guide you will learn how to install a new or another hard drive in your laptop. If this is not an HDD but an SSD hard drive, this practical tip tells you what you should consider when installing.
2. However, your hard drive may still have to be saved. In another practical tip, we will show you how to repair defective hard disk sectors.
3. This guide tells you how to repair a hard drive on Mac OS X.

An external hard drive can also be repaired. You can find out how this works in another practical tip.