Laptop Hardrive into a Desktop?
- Thread starter Rb10
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As a second storage drive, you can put the laptop drive in a desktop.
A laptop drive is much smaller then a desktop drive so you will need to get a 2.5 to 3.5 inch adapter to hold the drive (unless you have a higher end computer case that has brakets for both sizes).
A laptop drive is slower but for file storage you wont really notice (now for windows os drive you would).
As far as wiping off the informaiton, that is up to you.
You can install it into the desktop and then in the desktop you can format it (wipe it) if you wish.
A laptop drive is much smaller then a desktop drive so you will need to get a 2.5 to 3.5 inch adapter to hold the drive (unless you have a higher end computer case that has brakets for both sizes).
A laptop drive is slower but for file storage you wont really notice (now for windows os drive you would).
As far as wiping off the informaiton, that is up to you.
You can install it into the desktop and then in the desktop you can format it (wipe it) if you wish.
If this is a laptop and desktop from 2007 and latter then they both use the same data and power connections. You will need a sata data cable and there should be an additonal sata power conenctr on your power supply, if not you can get a 4 pin molex to sata power adapter.
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