you go to best buy and make Geek Squad do it!
Yes, you can replace a hard drive in an HP laptop. Hard drives for laptops are a standard 2.5 inch size drive. You can pick them up online between $50-$200 depending on the size and if its solid state drive or a mechanical drive
You can access the hard drive from the bottom of the laptop. If you turn the laptop upside down, you'll find the hard drive door under the Toshiba sticker with the laptop serial number. Remove two screws from the hard drive cover and then remove the cover. Slide the hard drive to the right and remove it. Transfer the hard drive bracket to a new hard drive.
You should check your laptop manufacturer's website for details on how to replace the hard drive. If the drive is user-replaceable they should have the schematics on how to do so. When you replace your drive, remember to get a drive of the same speed. If you get a faster one, you might cause too much heat build-up in the case.
The hard drive, the optical drive and usually memory are the easiest components to replace. Of the three, the optical drive is probably the easiest... usually one screw.
Immediately replace it with a hard drive that does not randomly lock up.
You can an external USB drive or replace your old hard drive with a bigger new one.
The hard drive on a laptop is the same thing as the hard drive in a desktop, only smaller in size. The hard drive stores all your documents, music, videos and software.
It is the same as a laptop hard drive
yes as long as its compatible with your proccesor and fits you need to check your dimesions. but i'd just recommend an external hardrive preferable a Western Digital WD Passport WDXMS1200 External Hard Drive
Hot swappable means the same thing whether the computer is a laptop, desktop or server. It means that you can remove and replace a drive (hard drive or removable media) while the computer is running.
Usually yes. You will have to get a computer technician to remove the hard drive from the smashed laptop & recover the data from from the drive. However, if the hard drive was damaged when the laptop was smashed this may not be possible.
You just need to buy a laptop dvd drive, it will work.