Can u put pc harddrive in a laptop?

Question

Just wondering because my latop has no space left and my pc which works no more has my old harddrive in it and was wondering if i could use it on my laptop

Answer 1

EASY! Ever heard of external hard drives?

Answer 2

No you cannot physically fit the PC hard drive inside your laptop. You could try another method though. Buy an external hard drive enclosure, put your PC hard drive inside it, plug the enclosure into your laptop(it will be USB connection or Firewire depending on the external enclosure you buy, meaning plug the enclosure into your usb or firewire port on your laptop) and it should show up as an external hard drive which you can put more data on. It will act as an extra storage drive that should show up under MY COMPUTER as a removable device like a thumb drive. I hope this helps you!

Another way is to just buy an external hard drive which come in some pretty cool design cases that work just like I explained, just more expensive than the way above.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Sorry, most likely no.

Most Computer hard drives are a 3.5 hard drive dimension, while laptops have a smaller, 2.5 hard drive dimension.

I'll tell you what though. I have an 80 gb hard drive from my older computer, and I didn't want it to go to waste, so I went on Newegg.com, and bought an external enclosure for like 30 bucks, which basically turns a hard drive into an external hard drive.

I basically hook up that hold hard drive to my computer via usb, and voila, I can use it now. But no, most likely you can't just put into your laptop, unless there was some sort of freak happening where your got a 2.5 hard drive, or your laptop is inconceivably big enough to hold a 3.5 hard drive, but I severely doubt it.

Answer 4

You would not be able to put it inside as most PC HDD are 3.5" and most laptop HDD are 2.5". The only way you could attach it is by getting a HDD enclosure available everywhere online and in many stores and then putting your PC HDD in that. This would allow you to use it like an external HDD.

Answer 5

No, because the hard drive uses different power and cable connectors as well as it is much larger than a laptop HD. You can buy a kit for like $29 to hook your hard drive up to your laptop and back it up-it's an enclosure. Go here (http://www.xpcgear.com/use350au2sk.html) or google hard drive enclosures. Hope this helps

Answer 6

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Answer 7

no u can not the pc hard drive is bigger (3.5) and the laptop harddrive is smaller (2.5) laptops also have different connectors

Answer 8

No, laptop drives are much smaller.... That's not to say you can't buy an external USB2 chassis to put a PC drive in.

Answer 9

I wouldn't do it...it would take away from the portability of the laptop--having a external hard drive.

Answer 10

no, sorry, labtop drives are made smaller as oppose to pc which has bigger

[and even if it was possible the labtop does not have a spot for this to be installed as this was not intended for such use]