Can i take a hard drive out of a hp laptop and put it into a toshiba laptop

[kelly1969]

i have a toshiba satilite laptop ic a hp hard drive compatable with it?

 

[ss202sl]

They should be interchangeable. Are they about the same age? I am guessing that they are both 2.5 inch sata.

 

[SchizTech]

As long as they use the same interface, yes. Laptop/desktop vendors use hard drives from the same set of vendors (Seagate, Hitachi, WD, etc) which use interchangeable standard connectors. Older drives used the IDE/PATA standard while newer drives use SATA.

You'll have to re-install windows since the drivers installed on the HP laptop won't match the hardware in a different model from Toshiba.