Can I put a laptop hard disk drive in a desktop computer?
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Yes, but you will need special adapters.
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you should be able to, as long as there is space for another hard drive in there, It should be a piece of cake!\n\nBE SURE TO UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FIRST!\n\nassuming you have IDE (grey cables) not sata\n\non the "Slave" hard drive the hd your going to be putting in for extra space should be set to slave. The jumpers in the back of the hard drive should have a small letter next to it like S or M or C you want S\n\nnow the current hard drive you have in there you will need to set the jumpers to master or M.\n\nWhen you connect the ribbon you will connect one end to the mother board, usually blue, and the other end to the master, the middle connector chouls go to the slave.\n\nfinaly plug in the power\n\n\n\nif you have SATA (red cables) just plug in your new hard drive mount it to the tower plug in the power and thats it.
934653
no cant do this cos hdd  connects through ide or ide to usb converter.
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SIMPLE ANSWER IS -- NOPE --\n\nU simply do not get notebooks with terrabytes of hard disk\nthat's 4 high end desk tops\n\nU gotta compromise somewhere @ 1k$\n\nBest i suggest is somethin like Dell Inspirion E1505\n1 GB RAM\n80 - 100 GB hard disk\n\nBest part is operating system is windows media centre 2005, the best 4 u ; not win xp home or pro\n\nOpt for a DVD writer and keep dvd's handy instead of dumping all u'r videos & music on u'r hard disk\nAlso, an external usb hard disk in casing can store much data & u can get a 500 gb hard drive\n\nput altogether, it will cross 1k !\nbut  not by much,, about 1.2 - 1.4 k should get u a good system\n(one last piece of advise, a centrino duo core is sure better than a solo core)
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You don't have to take apart your desktop PC. Get a "USB to USB Datalink Cable" USB 2.0 compatible. This adapter is intended for data exchange between two PCs via USB. The supplied software has a screen similar to the Windows Explorer and provides a simple and effective user environment.
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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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ok sata hard drive are for desktop computers. sata11 hard drive are for laptop computers that use the new sata11. all new toshiba g25 come with them so they can raid them
365274
Not at all.\n\nUnscrew the harddrive and pull it out, then put in the new one.
650563
You would need to buy a hard drive caddy, similar to this.\n\nhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-HDD-HARD-DISK-DRIVE-CADDY-CASE-ENCLOSURE-PC-MAC_W0QQitemZ8805071844QQcategoryZ96894QQtcZphotoQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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latops have special hard drives, search computer websites, such as newegg, and find laptop hard drives, that support sata 150, this is the kidn dat works with dell inspiron 6000\nbut the rband does not make a difference, in fact go for a hitachi or a toshiba
524133
something simple and not a lot of people know about is installing a hard drive in a computer. It can be done in about a minute. My friend did this in a college course and got a great grade.
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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 you can. it will show up as a hard drive in your "my Computer".
515444
You can take off the laptop harddrive and add it to the new desktop pc as another harddrive, then you can access the added harddrive from the desktop. \nI assume your laptop file system is the same as the desktop, if not the desktop must be NTFS.
958130
find a external hard dirve. copy the files to it and move to laptop.
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Yes, your computer will read it just like another hard drive but it will be a bit slower if external. Also in an enclosure it will be more suceptible to damage. Safer to keep it in the computer case itself as a second drive if possible.
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Yes, you will not have to worry about compatibility unless you were to pickup a laptop model instead of a standard desktop hard drive.  I would get a 7200rpm.  Personally I would recommend a Seagate Barracuda as they are known for being fairly quiet.  Save up enough money for the right size hard drive so you don't have to replace it in a year again.