Old laptop

Sparky · 12 Aug 2006 at 18:38

Got a old laptop laying about.nothing special and a very small HDD.Rather than throw it away i was thinking of letting my 8 year old use it.

The OS on it is windows 95 :eek:

which isnt working i would like to upgrade to XP.Now for starters it does not have a CD Rom drive also XP probably would not fit on the HDD anyway.

If i remove the HDD from the laptop could i get it to boot using a external caddy with a normal [5.25] HDD?

Justintime · 12 Aug 2006 at 18:47

Heh, the memory and cpu prolly would'nt cope with XP anyways mate. The IDE pins for a laptop aren't the same as a 3.5" drive pins as well, same with power connectors. I've got laptop hdd to desktop convertors but haven't seen any convertors to run a desktop hdd on a laptop.

Sparky · 12 Aug 2006 at 18:50

The caddy would plugin through usb.Would the laptop recognise the HDD in the caddy as a bootable drive?

Justintime · 12 Aug 2006 at 18:52

On a laptop that spec? likely not.

edit - what exactly are the specs?

Biohazard · 12 Aug 2006 at 19:04

if you have a gig or less on the hard drive, you will not have the specs to run XP. You could get 98-ME working on it but thats about it.