Can I use a desktop hard drive in my laptop?

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PCNoobXCVII

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In the desktop that I'm getting soon I stupidly forgot to include a optical disk drive. So I was wondering if I could temporarily use the hard drive I ordered for the desktop on my laptop in order to install windows 8 onto it.
 
Solution
yes, it installls drivers specifically for the machine you are installing it too, i highly doubt it would work from a laptop to a desktop. possibly if you install win 8 on a desktop similar to yours and swap, then it SHOULD, not definite, but should work


4GB or larger
 


Only 4GB? I expected larger. Do you know how I would go about transferring the data from the DVD to the flash drive?