Question about laptop hard drives

pioneertrini

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Jan 3, 2014
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I got two questions about laptop hard drives, firstly if I take my hard drive out of my laptop and put it into one of those external caddys and plug it into my pc using usb will all my movies and music be accessible just like an external hard drive? or does it have to be formatted a certain way first to then become an external hard drive and will I then lose everything on the drive? Also would this hard drive http://www.scan.co.uk/products/320gb-seagate-st320lm001-spinpoint-m8-25-hdd-95mm-sata-3gb-s-5400rpm-8mb-cache-12ms-ncq be able to work with this laptop http://www.sony.co.uk/product/vaio-e-series/vpceh1j1e

sorry for the noob questions and thanks for reading