I have two laptops one with a broken screen "HP" and one with a crashed hard drive "Toshiba".

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Boogieman_WD
If it's going to be a drive, which you want to use as a secondary storage HDD, by connecting it to your desktop computer, you can just reformat it by using Disk Management. Here's how to partition and format it: How to partition and format a hard drive on Windows and Mac OSX. In order to get to the point that all of its storage capacity is "unallocated" space, you can simply click with the right mouse button on each of the partitions and select "Delete Volume...". After that, just follow the tutorial from the link above.
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Hey there, Dave.

If the drive can physically fit in the slot, I don't see a reason for this not to happen. If those are standard drive, both should be with the same form factor (2.5" standard laptop drives), but you should check if their height is the same (9.5mm standard height), so that you're sure that the Toshiba laptop does not use drives with 7mm height, because a 9.5mm drive probably won't fit in the drive bay.

Hope that helps.
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Boogieman,
They are the same size. How do I wipe the HP hard drive clean. so I can use it in the Toshiba? both laptops don't work so I will use my desktop.
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If it's going to be a drive, which you want to use as a secondary storage HDD, by connecting it to your desktop computer, you can just reformat it by using Disk Management. Here's how to partition and format it: How to partition and format a hard drive on Windows and Mac OSX. In order to get to the point that all of its storage capacity is "unallocated" space, you can simply click with the right mouse button on each of the partitions and select "Delete Volume...". After that, just follow the tutorial from the link above.
 
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