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.

I've set the BIOS to use only SATA ata devices, but enabled the IDE cdrom on the PATA channels. <BR><BR>I can succefully Fdisk and format the drive with a 98 Boot disk and I'm wondering if there is a ...