laptop hard drive

I want to format this hard drive but cant use it as a primary drive. Is it posible to hook it up as a slave in anouther laptop?

 

Laptops usually only have room or connections for one HD, although I could be wrong. There might be options to hook it up as an external drive but those parts would cost money.

Question: Why can you not use it as a primary drive?

 

Its already got windows on it and drivers from another computer(It was smashed)....will it work as a primary HD if I just pluged it in? I dont think it would....it may though

 

Id love to hook it up as an external drive, but not sure if you can, also I dont see any jumpers on the back of this HD

 

What you basically just said was "The cat jumped out of the apple and then bounced down the sky in china"..

If it has windows on it why cant you boot up and format? All you would need would be a windows cd.

Does it have a password set on it or something?

 

To me it sounds like your saying that the harddrive has windows on it and drivers but it wont work...probably because it came out of a HP or something or its going into a HP or Compaq or something....

Anyways I can get the hard drive cloned for you if you need...

 

Alright yeah, I dont know what I talking about haha..... All I really nead to know is if I can run an external drive in a laptop

 

It could be possible.

 

hahaha, ok, if there is an external IDE port on the laptop, you should be able too cause you can get external burners and cd-roms.. it "should" be just a matter of changing the CMOS on the laptop to boot from this other device..

 

wtf does that mean?

 

That was exactly my point :wink:

 

alright cool, I think I know what you mean....Ill have to buy a wire though....wheres the best place to pick one up?

BTW anyone have any use for a 1 gig processer? I cant get it out of the board, so someone can have if they have any use for it

 

Fucking amazing cat though, eh?

 

How much? if your giving it away Ill take it

 

hook me up with some help gearing up my laptop and its yours...its a pentuim 3, plus all kinds of parts

 

So explain to me again why you cant use the hard drive IN the laptop already??

 

oh I can....this one is just bigger

 

ahhhhhh, so you want it as a backup drive then?

hit me up on MSN smooth_herman@hotmail.com

 

I read this whole thread through a couple times, and still don't understand what you are trying to do....

You want a second drive for a laptop? Just for more space? If so you can get external drives that connect via USB. That would be the easiest.

Or consider removable media if all you need is extra storage space? You can easily add a cd-burner...


You won't be able to run a second hard drive INSIDE a laptop. There will be no connector and no space for it. You won't be able to run a laptop hard drive outside the laptop either... you won't find a place to plug in the mini-ide connector outside the laptop.

If you need to get data off the laptop drive, you can leave it as the only drive in the laptop, then burn the data to cd, or transfer via network... then put the second drive in and dump the data to it... or you can buy laptop hard drive mini-ide to desktop ide converters... and use the laptop drive in a regular desktop PC.

Uhhh..... yeah.

 

yeah, I decided to leave my laptop alone on acount of I dont know what im doing....

 

Barbour=

 

Or, if you have the drive, you can just buy a USB case. That would be cheaper. If you have a Sony, Mac, or laptop geared for video editing then you'll be better off with a Firewire (i.link) case. It will be much faster (I'm guessing the laptop is old enough not to be USB 2). In fact, for a drive on any size USB wouldn't even be as fast as tape backup.