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I just got
a new laptop.. What I am worried about is, if my laptop ever dies, like.. the video card or anything, will my files be stuck in it forever? Because when my computer died I could always get the files out of the hard drive. But it's different with a laptop.. So, what do you recommend?
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It would be a wise idea to buy a external hard drive that plugs into your usb. Or if you have a CD burner (DVD burner would be better) and make backups often.
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A hard drive is a "hard" plate that is spinning very, very fast. Above it is an arm that reads magnetic signals on the plate. The arm doesn't actually touch the disk; it is moving too fast. Hard drives are assembled in clean-rooms. A speck of dust could cause the drive to destroy itself.
When the hard drive breaks, usually some of the motors in it have become stuck. This can be fixed, but only in a clean-room. It isn't normally done, and it is very expensive.
Occasionally a hard drive's arm will touch the plate while it is running. If this happens, the disk tears itself apart. Data will not ever be recovered by any means if this happens.
So unless you are rich enough to spend thousands of dollars on a hundred-dollar hard drive, you didn't recover data from a _broken_ hard drive. You are probably thinking of something else that broke on your computer, or software troubles.
A laptop hard drive works in the same way. If it breaks, you will not recover it. If something else on it breaks, you will have to send it to the manufacturer to recover data. Local tech shops won't be able to recover data from a laptop.
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