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Can I put a laptop hard drive into a destop?

  • 19-01-2011 11:20pm
    #1
    barneysplash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭


    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


Comments

  • #2
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


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


  • #3
    cgarrad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭cgarrad


    you can buy a mount kit on ebay


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