Can i put a desktop computer hard drive in my laptop?

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Recentl ive found that my laptops hard drive got bluescreened and after taking it to get fixed it is done for good and so now im shopping for a new hard drive and laptop hard drives are more expensive than desktop computer ones so can i buy a desktop computer hard drive and put it in my laptop? I have a toshiba l305 and the hard drive im looking at is a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144521

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

You can put a laptop drive in a desktop (my newest one from last week has one) but you cannot go the other way.
Laptop hard drives are 2.5 inches; desktop are 3.5 inches so they physically will not fit.

Carling · Answer

No a desktop hard drive is 3.5" and a laptop is 2.5", What makes you think the hard drive is down? You don't need a hard drive to boot up a computer, There are several things you could do. 

Make a boot able CD/DVD or a USB boot able jump drive, then boot up your computer with that, you can do everything you can do with an hard drive installed, you can get on the internet and surf the web, You have a lot to learn about computers, you might as well start now, windows is not the only operating system in the world. 

Go to this website download the latest April 26th 2012 operating systems. Make a boot up cd/dvd disk or USB jump drive, and use that to boot up your computer, then you can check if the hard drive is down. It may be that the master boot record is corrupted and all it need is formatting which is most probably the case, 

go to this weblink and download any of these up to date Free operating systems 
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Anonymous · Answer

Sure,wrap it on the bottom with a duct tape since it won't fit on the housing and make custom cables to connect it.

Anonymous · Answer

No. Different form factors.

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