[ H e l p ]An external hard drive and an internal hard drive

[Jah]

Well I opened up my pc out of boredom and found out that I had an external hard drive that MAY replace it , I didn't wanna do anything cause It was my first time but I Consider trying to Change it

Well here is a Picture of the One in my Laptop:


And here is the External Hard Drive:


So can I replace The External Hard drive with the Laptop Disk ?

Thanks !

[Skrillex]

Are you trying to put a laptop hardrive into a freaking desktop O_o

[Areox2]

You can just buy an external hard drive and when you start up your computer have it boot from there.

[Jah]

Nope , replacing my laptop's with An external one.

[Aleena]

Are you trying to put a laptop hardrive into a freaking desktop O_o

Whats wrong with that? I do it all the time.

And, @Dummy~ You need to show a picture of the end of the harddrive where the connectors are...if the connectors are the same it will work just fine, a harddrive is a harddrive, as long as the connectors work it will work just fine.

[Chaos]

Probably can but depends on the connectors like aleena said and it might have to stay out of your laptop depending on its model and size.

[Elliot]

Yea, it'll work. They're both SATA. Make sure you have an OS installation disk first before you do it.

[Chaos]

How do you know the second one is SATA Tom?

[Elliot]

How do you know the second one is SATA Tom?

It says Serial ATA on the label.

[Jah]

Thanks all and what do I have to do for the OS , just copy windows file into the External Hard drive ?
I think The connectors are the same , I'll have to open it up again later today , Yesterday was the first time I opened up a PC.

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This is my pc from the inside
there is the connector in my pc :


The External HDD :

[Chaos]

You can't just copy windows for it trk.

[Elliot]

You can't just copy windows for it trk.

Yea, you need to download a .iso of Windows and burn it to a DVD. Or, you can download Norton Ghost or something similar to make a bit-by-bit image from one HD to another.

[Jah]

Is there a vid for that ?
Like a tut or something ? Thanks again btw