My hard disk died last night after the fan stopped working, and now I guess I gotta get a new laptop. I don’t know anything about computers, so I need some help finding something that can run Minecraft decently for $400 or less.
Also, might it be cheaper to just get it repaired? Is that a thing?
Hard drives are cheaper than they used to be. You can get a 2tb Western Digital Blue laptop drive on eBay for $70 right now. And replacing a laptop drive is pretty easy. There should be a cover with a small screw that you take off, and behind it will be the drive in a caddy that you can pull out.
After replacing the drive, you'd need installation media for your OS, probably a flash drive, to reinstall the OS on the new drive.