Drive for Asus laptop

[larrytimm]

I have an Asus U57A laptop computer. The hard drive crashed and no backup was made 🙂( wife's machine). Now I need to order a hard drive and have no idea what type to order and what software I will need. PLEASE HELP??

 

[BadActor]

The laptop has a 5400 rpm 750 GB Sata 2.5 inch HDD. Now would be a perfect time to upgrade it to an SSD, it would make it seem like a different PC. If you decide to do that, I would use Samsung 850 EVO or a Kingston V300 if you're on a tight budget. Contact ASUS and they may be able to send you an install disk for Windows since the HDD failed, otherwise you will have to purchase a copy of Windows.