Can you use a desktop hard drive in a laptop?

Tj Foshee

I have a laptop and i am pretty sure the hard drive is dead... It got stabbed with a screwdriver (don't ask how). I also have a couple of desktops that are dead but the hard drives in them are fine.
Could I use a desktop hard drive on a laptop?
The laptop is a Toshiba satellite L455-s5000 has windows 7 on it.
The other computers I have are a windows vista and another has xp. both are emachines.
So is there anyway to make this work?
Also im concerned about the power supply. Would the hard drive need a power supply of its own? how would I do that.
Any guides you can give me?

Answer
There is no way to install a 3.5" drive inside a laptop,

You can put a 3.5" hard drive in a USB case and plug it into the laptop. But you will run into a problem it will be difficult or impossible to make the machine boot from USB depending on the machine's BIOS and the OS.

You could possibly custom make some cables to bring the SATA connection out from the laptop to plug into an eSATA case with a power supply that you could put the 3.5' in but.... takes more experience maybe than you have.

Laptop hard drive in desktop.?

HieN N

I wanted to know if using a laptop hard drive as my primary hard drive in my desktop make it slow like opening up programs and playing game compared to using a regular desktop hard drive.

Answer
Being a laptop drive vs. desktop drive has nothing to do with performance.

Having a slow drive vs. a fast drive is the deciding factor.

Having a drive with small cache vs. one with a large cache can be a contributing factor.

Having a fragmented drive in need of de-fragmenting can be another contributing factor.

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