Can directly connect e sata laptop to my sata pc motherboard?

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Is it possible to directly connect esata laptop to my pc's sata on motherboard using a esata/sata cable? I fear it will burn one or both.

 

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If your laptop has an eSATA port, that's basically used to connect an eSATA device to it. The best example would be an external HDD that does eSATA.

On the other hand, if you're looking for eSATA connectivity, using your motherboard's SATA ports, something like this should help:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812119021

My Laptop has an esata port, I've found an esata/sata cable and the seller said I could connect directly to the asus motherboard's sata. Therefore I always must; 1. power up with the sata cable already connected, 2 and always power up the laptop secondly. I do realize this is more dangerous to the motherboard, should I ever forget the sequence.

 

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Is it ok to direct connect a desktop motherboard's sata directly an esata on my laptop using a conversion cable made for esata to sata, to use this as a connect to both systems?