Connect 2.5" Hard Drive to Desktop

[Rowan88]

Hi,

Unfortunately I need to send my seagate hard drive back to Overclockers for repair which will take around 28 days.

I was wondering is it possible to connect an old 2.5" SATA hard drive from my laptop and install windows 7 on it for use in my desktop for now?

Thanks

 

[honosuseri]

Yes mate you can. SSDs are 2.5inch for example, the drives size isn't important just having the sata connection.

The downside is that Laptop HDDs tend to be slow @5400RPM rather than the desktop drives which are 7200RPM