14 Oct
2008
14 Oct
'08
5:12 p.m.
On 14 Oct 17:09, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:30PM +0100, Barry Chater wrote:
Is it possible to fit an ide hard drive from a laptop into a desktop pc as a second drive,
Yes. Depending on the type of drive you may need a special (adapter) cable.
I.e. if the laptop drive is a 2.5" IDE drive you'll need a special cable to connect it to the (legacy) IDE/PATA interface on your desktop machine.
I'm not sure if modern laptops have moved to SATA, probably they have, in that case I would assume that a laptop SATA drive will just connect to a Desktop SATA interface with no problem.
Missed that bit that said IDE? ;)
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Brett Parker