Can I use a desktop hard drive in my laptop?

[PCNoobXCVII]

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.

 

[USAFRet]

Well my original plans were to use my laptop as a medium for installing windows onto the hard drive for my desktop coming in, but that got shut down. So now I'm open for any suggestions that could work, I'm looking towards installing it using a USB drive now, but I've got to figure out how to get it from the disk to the USB drive first.

Right. USB stick or DVD.

How many gb should the USB be in order to install windows 8 64-bit?

4GB or larger

 

[PCNoobXCVII]

Well my original plans were to use my laptop as a medium for installing windows onto the hard drive for my desktop coming in, but that got shut down. So now I'm open for any suggestions that could work, I'm looking towards installing it using a USB drive now, but I've got to figure out how to get it from the disk to the USB drive first.

Right. USB stick or DVD.

How many gb should the USB be in order to install windows 8 64-bit?

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?

 

[USAFRet]

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

Given a valid Windows install disk and another PC:
Use a burning application to create an ISO file of that install DVD
Use the MS tool to create a bootable USB stick. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool