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Region: Yggdrasil

Goddess Relief Office wrote:Any computer experts here?

My laptop screen cracked and has become unusable. Everything else works fine but I can't see anything with it. The laptop is 5 years old, if the screen didn't crack I might still use it for 1-2 years since I am only using it for watching anime and doing word processing.

Is my best bet buying a new laptop and salvaging the old one's hard disk to transfer files over? Do I do that with a disk enclosure?

yeah I got it too. Might be trying to catch the April 1 activity spike

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.

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