Laptop drive to Hard disk drive

[darkphoenix5]

Myt friend is having problems with His desktop disk drive were it is always at 100% and his Mom always uses it and it probably has a lot of viruses, he doesn't know a thing about hardware.
he is using his laptop which is not even close to as good as his desktop and I was wondering if theres a way he can either put his laptop drive in there and take the regular drive out or buy a new 3.5" drive and just migrate everything over. Will this work or will his best bet be just egtting a new PC?

 

[USAFRet]

Using the laptop drive, with the included OS...in a desktop[...will not work.

So lets fix the actual problems. Of which there seem to be 2.

1. Janky laptop. Not much you can do about those specs.
Let's move on

2. Virused up desktop.
No, you can't just migrate the OS from the laptop drive to the desktop drive. That is no different than just using the actual drive.

What OS is on this desktop?
Was it preinstalled?
Is there anything really, really critical on that drive? Like the only copy of a birth certificate or something?


Where I'm going with this is...full wipe and reinstall of whatever OS is on there.
Maybe even to the point of purchasing a whole new OS.

 

[darkphoenix5]

yes his dad bought him the pc off Ibuypower so everything was pre installed, and his mom has a lot of * on there so he cant wipe the drive, his laptop is fine but is just older and doesnt run the games as good as if he played on his desktop.
his original plan was to buy new parts and have his dad build him a new one but he already has gpu's...he was just wondering if there was a cheaper solution...thank you though

 

[USAFRet]

Bottom line....the laptop OS won't work in a whole new desktop.
And if you're building a new desktop, the price of a new OS for it is minimal.

If $80 for a new OS to go with the new desktop is too, sell the crappy laptop.
As long as it runs mostly OK, someone will love it for $150.