Can you install the laptop hard drive in the PC with an adapter?

Can you install the laptop hard drive in the PC with an adapter?

No, not with an adapter, but without.

These are simply 2.5 inch SATA hard drives as a rule, almost all current housings hold 2.5 great hard drives (of course, more intended for SSDs).

If you enjoy it, but if that would be a lot of work for me

Lot of work? It only takes less than 5 minutes. And maybe you screw 2-6 screws out and in again. Not more

Sorry, but this is by no means the case with most newer notebooks. I would have to completely disassemble my HP ENVY with aluminum body. Yes, there are easily accessible devices. But that is becoming less and less.

With many laptops, you screw a flap on the back and have the hard drive outside in a minute. When it comes up you screw the whole thing on and take it out, that might take 5 minutes.

This is by no means the case with newer notebooks, aluminum bodies and an increasingly narrow design. There are individual models in which RAM and hard drives are still easily accessible. But most of them are not.

I would have to completely disassemble my HP ENVY. First loosen ~ 12-18 screws, remove the drive, loosen the paneling carefully and remove the keyboard and main board so that you can change the parts on the back.

There are some, but very few ultrabooks, etc. They have 1.8 "hard drives. It is not easy. But most of them have 2½" drives installed. They have the same connectors as the 3½ "drives in the pc. At least with sata. Everything else is already out of date.

in that case you only need an adapter in the mechanical sense. This is a piece of sheet metal, folded twice, on which you can screw the 2½ "plate so that it fits into the 3½" slot.

Most of the time you have to look away at the bottom of such devices. If you can't, the SSD is soldered.

All of this only applies to devices with an Nvme SSD anyway

Yeah, if that doesn't work it's usually completely soldered and doesn't work anyway.

Quite apart from that, maybe the questioner only has a hard drive without a notebook.

Most of the time you have to look away at the bottom of such devices. If you can't, the SSD is soldered.

Please read again carefully. I spoke explicitly of aluminum bodies and the slim design. There are screws on the underside, but they are only for attaching the panel from above.

You can think of it as a bathtub (lower part), on which a lid (keyboard) is then placed. And no, neither the SSD nor the HDD is soldered. The built-in 16GB RAM modules are both just plugged in.

Yeah, if that doesn't work it's usually completely soldered and doesn't work anyway.

There are devices in which components that are otherwise modularly soldered are soldered. With the HP ENVY, like some others, it is only design-related and you can only get to the SSD, HDD or RAM modules by completely disassembling. With my ThinkPads it looks very different again. There all essential parts are easily accessible and can be exchanged quickly.

There are also enough devices with a narrow design where you can easily remove the lower part. Yes, also from aluminum. I can't help that your HP laptop was designed to be unnecessarily complicated

There are also enough devices with a narrow design where you can easily remove the lower part. Yes, also from aluminum.

I didn't say it didn't exist. Most manufacturers, however, are now installing the components in such a way that the end customer has hardly any options. Above all in the hope that the less experienced customers would rather buy a new device than screw it on themselves.

I can't help that your HP laptop was designed to be unnecessarily complicated

I didn't assume that to you either and just mentioned my HP notebook as an example. Your reasoning "if this is not possible, it is usually completely soldered" is nonsense in the context, since I was referring only to the type (design).

I think you are too attached to things like that on medmonk. There are thousands of different types of laptops. Some are upgradeable, some less so, some not at all.

It doesn't really matter.

I think you are too attached to things like that on medmonk. There are thousands of different types of laptops.

That may be, I don't want to deny it, and after more than 15 years of working in the IT environment, it is taken a little more out of habit.

It doesn't really matter.

It's not bad, only we might hang ourselves too much.

In a nutshell: All well and have a nice evening.

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