Can you put a laptop hdd to a desktop? Is there any danger?

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You are doing a whole reinstall. It will wipe out whatever is on that partition.
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combinebasic

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Yes you can connect it to your desktop computer, but be sure that your laptop HDD is compatible to your mobo connectors like SATA. Once you connect it, power-up your computer and go to bios settings and change ide to AHCI mode.
 
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But will it boot up the os no problem? i don't have to reinstall windows or something?
Also i heard that you need a special bay to put it in, what if you don't mount it? is it dangerous?
Sorry for asking so many question
 
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99-1 against it booting up.
And if it did, then you'd have licensing issues. The OEM license for the laptop will unactivate itself.
 
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If there are old drivers in your old OS, it will cause blue screen, so before to transfer it be sure to remove first the drivers in device manager. You need a bay bracket to put it, so that you can screw it in HDD bay of the system case.
 
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So i just have to reinstall windows right? my data will be safe?

 
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You are doing a whole reinstall. It will wipe out whatever is on that partition.
 
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