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Can I put a laptop hard drive into a destop?

barneysplash · 2011-01-19 23:20:50

Hi all My friend has given me a laptop to fix. The hard drive is fine, there is some problem on the motherboard. I was wondering if it is possible to remove the laptop hard drive, in this case a 2.5 inch SATA drive, and using SATA power and data cables connect it to the motherboard of a desktop computer as a secondary…

20-01-2011 12:20am

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barneysplash

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Hi all

My friend has given me a laptop to fix.

The hard drive is fine, there is some problem on the motherboard.

I was wondering if it is possible to remove the laptop hard drive,
in this case a 2.5 inch SATA drive, and using SATA power and data
cables connect it to the motherboard of a desktop computer as
a secondary drive.

I would then boot the desktop computer and the laptop drive would
possibly show up as a removeable disk?

I am posting this query as I don't know if the SATA connection
on the desktop runs at a different voltage and could overload the
laptop drive.

Has anyone out there done this or gotten around this problem?

Thanks

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#2 20-01-2011 12:25am

bhickey

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Yes fire away. SATA is SATA no matter what size.

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#3 22-01-2011 1:24am

cgarrad

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you can buy a mount kit on ebay

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