Can i connect a laptop HDD to a desktop PC

[razerg]

Hi,
can i connect a laptop hard drive (more precisely Hitachi HTS545040B9A300) to a desktop. My PC is using Antec Earthwatts 380w 80+ PSU. My main worry is to get it fried like a crisp and all my important data with it. And yes they're both SATA connectors but is there other things to keep in mind?

 

[middlemarkal]

no danger, just that it will be slower then a real 3.5"

 

[USAFRet]

Can you connect it to possibly get some data off it? Yes.
Can you connect it to run the OS that lives on it? Almost certainly not.

In either case, it will not 'fry' the drive. Standard SATA connection.

 

[razerg]

Can you connect it to possibly get some data off it? Yes.
Can you connect it to run the OS that lives on it? Almost certainly not.

In either case, it will not 'fry' the drive. Standard SATA connection.

LOL i wanted to try to run the OS from that HDD on my PC to see if my PC needs only a new HDD. Can you explain why it will not boot on desktop but will on laptop?

 

[USAFRet]

Can you connect it to possibly get some data off it? Yes.
Can you connect it to run the OS that lives on it? Almost certainly not.

In either case, it will not 'fry' the drive. Standard SATA connection.

LOL i wanted to try to run the OS from that HDD on my PC to see if my PC needs only a new HDD. Can you explain why it will not boot on desktop but will on laptop?

Moving a drive with an OS between systems, be they desktops or laptops....often does not work.

The further apart the hardware, the less likely it is to work.
Intel desktop to Intel desktop - Probably
Intel desktop to AMD desktop - Less likely
Laptop to desktop - Almost certainly not.

Drivers, architecture, etc, etc. You can try it, but don't be surprised if it completely fails to boot.

What problems is your PC currently having? A better, easier way might be to create a Linux LiveCD, and see if it boots from that and all your other hardware is OK.

 

[razerg]

Can you connect it to possibly get some data off it? Yes.
Can you connect it to run the OS that lives on it? Almost certainly not.

In either case, it will not 'fry' the drive. Standard SATA connection.

LOL i wanted to try to run the OS from that HDD on my PC to see if my PC needs only a new HDD. Can you explain why it will not boot on desktop but will on laptop?

Moving a drive with an OS between systems, be they desktops or laptops....often does not work.

The further apart the hardware, the less likely it is to work.
Intel desktop to Intel desktop - Probably
Intel desktop to AMD desktop - Less likely
Laptop to desktop - Almost certainly not.

Drivers, architecture, etc, etc. You can try it, but don't be surprised if it completely fails to boot.

What problems is your PC currently having? A better, easier way might be to create a Linux LiveCD, and see if it boots from that and all your other hardware is OK.

I bought some new parts to renew my old PC and all are working but it wont detect my hard drive. Sometime it says something like Auto detect sata 6 device but nothing happens. I'm suspecting of my hard drive but i'm not 100% sure, it might be something else. I don't have any other HDD to try nor can try at friends' PC.
Also desktop and laptop are both AMD but as you said difference between laptop and desktop makes it want to fail.

 

[USAFRet]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

 

[razerg]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

 

[USAFRet]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

 

[razerg]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

I thought i could create bootable usb with rufus, it always worked with it.
No, when i go to hard drive configuration it doesn't detect it at all. And yes everything is connected properly, there's not that much connectors to connect wrong. I connected 24pin power connector to the motherboard aswell as the 4 pin connector for the CPU. Then i connected sata power cable straight from the motherboard (not the molex-sata adapter) and finally connected hdd to the motherboard with the sata data cable. Oh and which linuxmint should i download, no codec, the one with codec....?

 

[USAFRet]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

I thought i could create bootable usb with rufus, it always worked with it.
No, when i go to hard drive configuration it doesn't detect it at all. And yes everything is connected properly, there's not that much connectors to connect wrong. I connected 24pin power connector to the motherboard aswell as the 4 pin connector for the CPU. Then i connected sata power cable straight from the motherboard (not the molex-sata adapter) and finally connected hdd to the motherboard with the sata data cable. Oh and which linuxmint should i download, no codec, the one with codec....?

Which Mint? Doesn't matter.
All we're looking for is a bootable OS. No fancy stuff needed.

 

[razerg]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

I thought i could create bootable usb with rufus, it always worked with it.
No, when i go to hard drive configuration it doesn't detect it at all. And yes everything is connected properly, there's not that much connectors to connect wrong. I connected 24pin power connector to the motherboard aswell as the 4 pin connector for the CPU. Then i connected sata power cable straight from the motherboard (not the molex-sata adapter) and finally connected hdd to the motherboard with the sata data cable. Oh and which linuxmint should i download, no codec, the one with codec....?

Which Mint? Doesn't matter.
All we're looking for is a bootable OS. No fancy stuff needed.

Okay, and i have a problem with my flash drive.
It is silicon power 16GB flash drive, it wont show in This PC (My Computer on win8.1) unless i show hidden files. If i show hidden files it's displayed but whenever i try to either format or open it says please insert a disk into removable disk (E
Last time i did with this flash drive was making it bootable with windows 7, and wasn't using it for about a week.

 

[USAFRet]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

I thought i could create bootable usb with rufus, it always worked with it.
No, when i go to hard drive configuration it doesn't detect it at all. And yes everything is connected properly, there's not that much connectors to connect wrong. I connected 24pin power connector to the motherboard aswell as the 4 pin connector for the CPU. Then i connected sata power cable straight from the motherboard (not the molex-sata adapter) and finally connected hdd to the motherboard with the sata data cable. Oh and which linuxmint should i download, no codec, the one with codec....?

Which Mint? Doesn't matter.
All we're looking for is a bootable OS. No fancy stuff needed.

Okay, and i have a problem with my flash drive.
It is silicon power 16GB flash drive, it wont show in This PC (My Computer on win8.1) unless i show hidden files. If i show hidden files it's displayed but whenever i try to either format or open it says please insert a disk into removable disk (E
Last time i did with this flash drive was making it bootable with windows 7, and wasn't using it for about a week.

Well, that appears to be a whole different issue.

 

[razerg]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

I thought i could create bootable usb with rufus, it always worked with it.
No, when i go to hard drive configuration it doesn't detect it at all. And yes everything is connected properly, there's not that much connectors to connect wrong. I connected 24pin power connector to the motherboard aswell as the 4 pin connector for the CPU. Then i connected sata power cable straight from the motherboard (not the molex-sata adapter) and finally connected hdd to the motherboard with the sata data cable. Oh and which linuxmint should i download, no codec, the one with codec....?

Which Mint? Doesn't matter.
All we're looking for is a bootable OS. No fancy stuff needed.

Okay, and i have a problem with my flash drive.
It is silicon power 16GB flash drive, it wont show in This PC (My Computer on win8.1) unless i show hidden files. If i show hidden files it's displayed but whenever i try to either format or open it says please insert a disk into removable disk (E
Last time i did with this flash drive was making it bootable with windows 7, and wasn't using it for about a week.

Well, that appears to be a whole different issue.

Yep, you're right but without that flash drive i won't be able to make a bootable USB drive. I will create another thread but i don't know in which category should i create it lol
Anyways thanks for your help.

 

[razerg]

As said...see if you can create a Linux LiveCD, just to verify all the other hardware. Boot from that and see what happens.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
This will give you an ISO, and you can create a bootable DVD from that.

Do i have to have a working or any HDD to make this work? And can i use a flash drive instead of dvd because i kinda don't have an optical drive in the PC.

You can do it from the working laptop.
And create a bootable USB with this:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Remember...this is only to test your desktop hardware.


But...'wont detect my hard drive'. Is the drive seen in the BIOS? Are you 100% sure everything is connected properly?

I thought i could create bootable usb with rufus, it always worked with it.
No, when i go to hard drive configuration it doesn't detect it at all. And yes everything is connected properly, there's not that much connectors to connect wrong. I connected 24pin power connector to the motherboard aswell as the 4 pin connector for the CPU. Then i connected sata power cable straight from the motherboard (not the molex-sata adapter) and finally connected hdd to the motherboard with the sata data cable. Oh and which linuxmint should i download, no codec, the one with codec....?

Which Mint? Doesn't matter.
All we're looking for is a bootable OS. No fancy stuff needed.

Just another quick question:
Could i have dual boot on one hard drive, one OS to boot on desktop (for example Windows 7) and another to boot from laptop (for example Windows 8.1)?

 

[jsmithepa]

I would definitely not plug in an HD that has important (non backed up?) data in it to a box that's not normally functioning.

If your BIOS can't even detect the HD, there something really wrong there. Reset CMOS, use another sata cable. Don't swap everything at once, I don't know how many items you are changing. You may want to put the old box together as it was so you can start at a "known" place. Then change one thing at a time.