- Confirm the physical damage.
Check the laptop to make sure the physical damage is from the hard drive and not a removable component. - Seek data recovery services.
Contact a data recovery service to retrieve any important data from the hard drive. - Purchase a new hard drive.
Search online for the make, model, and size of the hard drive your laptop requires. - Backup your data.
Save any important documents and files from your laptop to an external drive. - Open your laptop.
Carefully remove any screws necessary to disassemble the laptop. - Locate the hard drive.
Locate the hard drive and remove it from the laptop. - Replace the hard drive.
Replace the old hard drive with the new one. - Reassemble the laptop
Carefully reassemble the laptop in the reverse order. - Test the laptop.
Once the laptop is reassembled, test it to make sure it is working correctly.
