Most laptops can support any of the largest hard drives unless there is an issue with actual physical fitment.
Usually yes. You will have to get a computer technician to remove the hard drive from the smashed laptop & recover the data from from the drive. However, if the hard drive was damaged when the laptop was smashed this may not be possible.
A laptop hard drive fills the same function a hard drive in a desktop computer does. Which is to store all the information on the computer. This includes documents, pictures, video files and programs, including the operating system.
Plug the Flash Drive into a USB Port on your computer or laptop, and access the drive from My Computer.
The quickest way to clean data from a laptop computer is to completely reformat the hard drive on the laptop computer. If you are looking to only wipe certain things from the hard drive there is no faster way than selecting and deleting them folder by folder.
its usually doesnt it depends on the type of laptop
No. Information is saved on the hard drive of the computer, no the motherboard.
If the computer has failed but the hard drive still works, try putting the hard drive into another working computer.
well i never tried it but what you may have to do is write the OS on an other computer by linking the harddrive of the laptop to a computer with a CD ROM drive. afteer you write the OS on the harddrive you place it back on the laptop with no drives.
On the laptop, there should be 2 USB ports located on the back. Plug the Flash Drive into this port to access. It will create another drive on your computer
A 2.5 inch laptop hard drive can be used in a desktop computer with an appropriate adapter and mounting. Laptop CD / DVD drives have proprietary connectors. To use them, you would have to partially disassemble the drive, and then connect the aforementioned adapter.
if there is another port you can plug the pen drive into, try that. That will elimitate the port as the problem. If you have another computer available, try the pen drive in another computer. If it works, it's not the drive.
You'll have to remove the hard drive from the laptop and connect it to another working computer, laptop or desktop PC. You can use IDE adapter for laptop hard drives - for connecting it to a desktop computer. You can use external USB enclosure for laptop hard drives for connecting it either to a desktop or laptop computer. You'll find instructions for removing the hard drive in Dell service manuals, they are available for download from the Dell website. Follow links for more information about IDE adapter and external USB enclosure.