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Region: Yggdrasil
Pookyvania is right that you can most likely salvage the storage medium no problems, unless it too was damaged by whatever caused the screen to break (should something have fallen on it). The best thing to do when a laptop is broken is figure out the model of the laptop and then look up the manual to learn how to open it up and remove components you want/need. I recently just bought a 2005 IBM Thinkpad T43 and have been reading the manual on it for a bit now as mine has no battery, non-functional Wi-Fi and extra slots to populate with components. It's important to at least know what kind of system you use, desktop or laptop, that way you can refer to a manual and the technical know-how to open it up and remove important components. Some people get concerned with opening a laptop but there's no reason to, you'll most likely need a screwdriver and 30 minutes, sometimes a pair of tweezers for smaller components, but this is system dependent.