Connect a harddrive from a laptop to a desktop temporarily as a secondary drive to access it's data?

CurtisRW

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Aug 31, 2016
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Can I simply take the harddrive out of a dead laptop and connect it to my desktop (which has currently got 3 harddrives) as a 4th harddrive using another sata and power cable in order to back up the data on it?

Will it automatically work without me having to initialize the drive?

will it affect my other drives?

Thanks