is it possible to plug in a laptop's hard drive into a desktop to view the files??

Question

the screen broke on my old laptop and i want to check the files but i dont want to buy a new screen. please help

Answer 1

Yes, It is very much possible. There are converts available in the market including USB, which will let you plugging the laptop hard drive and will appear as secondary hard drive on your computer. Check following links http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat_id=906&sku=17705
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Answer 2

Yes, sometimes you can hook a laptop to a regular monitor, depends if it has the plug for it.

But, yes, you can take a small HD from a laptop and there are adaptors which let you plug that sucker into a HD cable for a desktop.

I know this, because I have such an adaptor, and have a laptop HD in my old Compaq desktop.

Answer 3

you can always use an external screen on the laptop.

to use the hard drive on a desktop, you'll need an adapter kit. Generally, they fit into a 5 1/4" drive bay and you just slide your hard drive into it and it'll show up as an external drive.

Answer 4

appropriate click on My pc and click cope with. The elect Disk administration. each and every now and returned I unquestionably have considered it the place you should manually assign a rigidity letter. you should work out a confusing rigidity indexed in there with a rigidity letter that's C:. that's your boot rigidity, you could see one in there with a partition that doesn't have one. appropriate click on that partition (ought to be great in 1000's of GBs in length) and choose exchange rigidity letters and paths and assign it one. the different risk is that the partition/records has been corrupted or the confusing rigidity is defective.

Answer 5

yes