Hi,
I have a laptop that has no interal optical drive and I want to reformat the HD and install a fresh copy of Windows. I am trying to avoid having to buy and external drive just for this one operation. So I am wondering if there is anyway to use my internal optical drive in my desktop. The drive in question is this....
DriveAs you can see it is a SATA drive.
My desktop has one of this connected to it (all though I am not sure if it will help at all)....
eSata BraketMy thoughts are to keep the drive connected to the desktop psu and to disconnect the sata cable from the motherboard. Then use that cable and plug it into the eSata of the laptop. The problem is I don't know if you can simply do that sata to esata. Or if it is even safe and recommendable.
Regards
Chad