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I assume when you say broken you just cannot access it. To answer your question there are a couple of things you can do but just saying it is broken, need more details. Repost your questions and give the exact symptons when you start up your computer. The easy answer is no, need to buy a new hard drive and install it, then re-install the operating system. But this means you will also lose all of your files.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoDisc refers to an optical drive while disk refers to a magnetic drive. As such, it seems that the person asking the question is saying that the DVD drive is broken on his Macintosh. Yes, that can be fixed. However, this is not a user-replaceable part. One needs to take it to a local computer repair shop to get the drive replaced. Unfortunately, as I explained to a client recently, parts for Macintosh computers are insanely expensive for no reason other than they have the Apple logo stamped on them. In this particular case, the user had a bad power supply in his 27-inch iMac. For parts and labor, the total bill to him was over $200 and three-quarters of that was the cost of the part! In a WIndows-based machine, the same repair would have been only $30 for the part and, as it would take no time at all to do the replacement, no charge for labor.
I have no idea what the drive replacement would cost the person who asked this question since I don't know if we are talking about a Macintosh desktop or laptop but suffice it to say, I am sure that it will cost more than the $30-50 that it would cost to replace the same type of drive in a Windows machine.
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