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Making an internal hdd work "outside"?

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Boney

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I am trying to build an htpc in the next few months. I have a limited budget so it will take me a few to buy all the parts needed to put it together. My question is that if I go ahead a buy my internal hdd right now for the htpc, Is there any way that I could hook it up to my dell e1505 laptop so that I can get a jumpstart on dumping an operating system, progs, and movies onto it? .. .. . and then just build the rest when i can get all the rest of the parts?
 
There are a million external harddrive enclosures to choose from. It would fit right into one. Newegg has a bunch to choose from.
 
oh nice, i never thought of that -- on the same topic .....

Would everything be ok in the OS after having it installed on my laptop ... but then run on the HTPC's mobo,cpu ? Or would i have to do something special.
 
Originally posted by: Boney
oh nice, i never thought of that -- on the same topic .....

Would everything be ok in the OS after having it installed on my laptop ... but then run on the HTPC's mobo,cpu ? Or would i have to do something special.
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The answer would be NO as HTPC mobo chipset and laptop chipset will be different. Unless you have exactly the same laptop mobo in your HTPC, you will have to reinstall everything once you get all of your HTPC parts.

What you can do is put movies first, then install windows after you got all your parts for your HTPC.

 
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