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

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#1
[ H e l p ]An external hard drive and an internal hard drive
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 :D

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 !
#2
Are you trying to put a laptop hardrive into a freaking desktop O_o
#3
You can just buy an external hard drive and when you start up your computer have it boot from there.
#4
Nope , replacing my laptop's with An external one.
#5
Skrillex wrote:
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.
#6
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.
#7
Yea, it'll work. They're both SATA. Make sure you have an OS installation disk first before you do it.
#8
How do you know the second one is SATA Tom?
#9
Chaos wrote:
How do you know the second one is SATA Tom?


It says Serial ATA on the label.
#10
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.

---------- Post added at 01:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:48 PM ----------

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


The External HDD :
#11
You can't just copy windows for it to work.
#12
Chaos wrote:
You can't just copy windows for it to work.


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.
#13
Is there a vid for that ?
Like a tut or something ? Thanks again btw :D