I have found out, the hard way, to keep a backup of all important documents on either an external hard drive or in a Cloud. That way, when these devices fail, which they inevitably do with time, you don't lose your documents, photos, etc. Simply replace the old laptop with a new one and you're good to go.
Sometimes it is less expensive, less time consuming and less frustrating to simply accept that gadgets break and when they do, just get a new one.