Is Lenovo drive interchangeable with Dell?
The wife's Lenovo U530 laptop had a hinge freeze which disabled the computer. Removed the hard drive before sending it in for repair. Lenovo decided to refund our purchase price because the parts were...
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Even if you don't want/need anything on the old disk I would still recommend you get an enclosure for it so you can use it as an external drive. Assuming the laptop the drive came out of isn't ancient, the drive will be a 2.5" drive so it won't need an enclosure with a power brick but can be powered via USB. If the replacement laptop has USB 3.0 ports, get an enclosure that supports USB 3.0 and data transfers will be much faster. Something similar to this: Sabrent Ultra Slim USB 3.0 to 2.5-Inch SATA External Aluminum Hard Drive Enclosure
An external drive can be used to do backups or can be used to hold large files such as videos in order to keep the drive on your laptop from filling up.
An external drive can be used to do backups or can be used to hold large files such as videos in order to keep the drive on your laptop from filling up.
