Can you use a normal hard drive in a laptop?

[iamdeathy]

when you buy a internal hard drive for a desktop p.c can use use it in a laptop or do you have to buy a special hard drive for a laptop? my laptop is seriously bad. it was crap when bought and now two years later people don't even sell laptops with as little hard drive space as this one.

 

[brinks]

Laptop hard drives are usually smaller (2.5"inch) compared to internal drives (3.5").

Basically, a normal hard drive will not fit into a laptop

 

[carnageX]

Desktop HDD's are larger in size than a laptop HDD, so no you wouldn't be able to.

Desktop: 3.5"
Laptop: 2.5" and thinner

Edit: ninja'd by brinks lol

 

[Trotter]

Most solid state drives are 2.5" and will work in laptops as long as they use SATA drives.

 

[jasonalwaysready]

if the laptop is your primary computer and it is mostly media/movies/pictures/music that is filling the hard drive, you may want to consider an external drive.