Can i use an external hdd minus an internal one on my laptop?

Can i use an external hdd minus an internal one on my laptop?

Possible yes but I do not believe an average laptop would support this. The complex drive would run very slow because of the USB or firewire nouns so you would need an SATA port on the spinal column on the laptop which only spanking new ones have. Even afterwards its a long shot.
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Short answer, not with window. Currently it is impossible to install most windows operating system to a external directly, I suppose you could verbs out a internal and put it in an external crate and boot off it if your motherboard supports USB boot... but here might be something wrong with that, I don't remember.



It is possible within Linux, hell you can run linux off a usb flash drive (half see if you wanted to).



But the downside is that it is slower than an internal drive do to limitations of USB's speed capablities.



Oh, and near windows firewire is out- nearby are no firewire boot motherboards, period.

ESATA (external serial ATA ... Extenal Serial Advanced Technology Attachment if you want the full name) might work, but afterwards you would need a fairly new computer and a complex end external strong drive that has an ESATA port.