Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.

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Hard drive manufacturer's have a disk "installation" tool that often includes a drive cloning/copying tool in the DOS versions. You just need one that will work over the USB bus to an external laptop ...