Is it possible to connect a laptop hard drive to a desktop computer?
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Yes. Just about any computer store (CompUSA, MicroCenter, Best Buy..) will have an external or internal adapter (or both) available for sale. You cannot simply plug it into your desktop because they have different interfaces and a laptop drive is significantly smaller than a normal desktop hard drive (2.5" vs. desktop's 3.5"). The external adapters are typically some sort of enclosure with USB connection and the internal ones are typically a simple pin conversion adapter. Internal will probably be cheaper since you won't be paying for the enclosure.
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yes there are cables to do this, they usually come with an adapter for 2.5 inch drives too. or just buy an external enclosure for hard drive such as an icybox.
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Contact your local Computer Guy, there are ways to get the disk and the data out of your laptop without powering it up.
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You can use a network or you can link them using a firewire cable. If you press the 'T' key while booting, a mac will act as a firewire harddrive. The other computer can then access the files on the harddrive as if it was connected to a external harddrive.
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Because of the size limitations within a notebook PC, there is nowhere to permanently install a second hard drive.  However most notebook manufacturers sell special trays that you can put a hard drive into (have one for my Latitude) and then replace the CD drive with the second hard drive.  (Sorry, you can not use both the CD and second hard drive at the same time.)\n\nAlso, you should be able to find on-line a USB caddy which will allow you to install the second hard drive into it, and then plug the caddy into a USB port and use the drive.  If your laptop has USB 2.0, it should work fine.  If you only have USB 1.1, it will crawl.  Because most laptop hard drives are more expensive per meg then desktop hard drives, it is often cheaper to just pay a regular "desktop" USB hard drive and use it rather than buying a laptop drive and a caddy.\n\nBoth solutions give you only part time access to the drive (unless you plan to take the USB caddy with you everywhere you go).  So you will not want to install programs or put data you need "all the time" onto the second drive.
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yes you can. it will show up as a hard drive in your "my Computer".
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transfer via a network cable or cd's or flash drives or PC-PC via usb or hard disk transfer
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The connector on the hard drive from your laptop can be converted to a "normal" drive (desktop hdd connector)  They sell these converter's for 10 or 15 bucks at most computer stores.  Some laptop hard disk drives have little converters on them which pull right off to reveal the normal laptop hdd connection.\n\nI'm assuming you have a desktop near by and a little bit of knowledge and/or courage :P\n\nTake the old laptop hard drive out and using a converter connect it to the desktop.  Format the laptop hdd and create a folder on the drive called /Win98 also make the laptop hdd bootable.  While on the desktop copy all the files over from the Windows 98 CD that you have to the /Win98 folder.\n\nPlace the laptop harddrive in the laptop and it should boot to dos.  From the dos prompt C:/ type "cd win98"  Then type "setup"  From there you should be able to install windows 98.
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This could be complicated but could usually be done with PCMCIA USB adapter (if your laptop has standard PCMCIA slots) like the one found at http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?dest=9999999997&product_id=3942788&sourceid=1500000000000001827170 .
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Yes, it most certainly can be done. You need to buy an adapter I bought one, and it allows me to mount a laptop hard drive inside my tower, so I am sure it could work in an external enclosure as well. It is available many places, but I got mine at general nanosystems- just search that on yahoo for website.
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Yeah what that dude said. Connect them with firewire. If you hold down T on one of them when booting up it will boot as a hard drive, and appear as a drive on the other computer so you can copy stuff off it that way.
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Your question doesn't have a simple answer; however, if you don't need two computers, the easiest thing to do would be to transplant the HD from the slower machine into the better one.  This way, you'll have both drives available in the same computer, with a minimum of muss 'n fuss :)
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Get yourself a \nVantec NexStar 3 USB 2.0 Mirror Finish Black External Hard Drive Enclosure.  \nThis will turn your internal drive to become external drive so you can hook it up to you laptop via USB.
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If you are backing up a laptop, which seems to be what you are suggesting, you can put both pc's on the same network workgroup and share the C: drive on the laptop allowing you to copy files to the desktop hard drive.
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It's not a very hard job. \nyou just open the cover of hard-drive and pull it out. then you can insert it to another laptop or on a PC .... if you want to use a PC to format it ... perhaps you need a portable hard disk drive cover with a USB cable then you can use it as an external hard disk.(because the connectors of PC and Laptop are not the same connectors) then it's the easiest part of job to format it.\nafter all you shall insert it to your laptop and close it's cover again .\nit's very easy .... be sure.\nGood luck.
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Yes you can.It is a little roundabout. attach your laptop to main computer through lan cable. go to programs>accessories>communications>remote desktop connection.you have to assign IP address for Tower and Laptop.\nwhen laptop asks to connect where you give ip address of tower. Then enter user id of tower and password for tower.once logged in you will have the power of tower.
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take the hard drive out and stick it into your other computer