DIY Laptop Repairs and Upgrades: Replacing Hard Drives and CD/DVD Drives [Video]

Hard drives and optical drives are the most failure-prone items on a laptop. They're also among the easiest to swap out, upgrade, or, in some cases, live without. Here are the best fixes for saving, replacing, and speeding up your storage.

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Save Your Data

You'll know when your hard drive goes dead—the computer will boot up, but the operating system won't, or boots up but loses access to files very frequently. Presumably, you've been backing up, both to an external device and on the internet, on a regular basis, just like every respectable tech site and slightly geeky friend has been telling you.

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