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Old 9th April 2023, 19:25
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It depends whether additional hard drives are connected internally or externally. The motherboard on your PC has 4 + 2 SATA connectors so it could theoretically take up to 5 hard discs, and an optical drive.
If they are connected externally then they would use the rear USB sockets with an adapter but I suspect the former is the case.
A PC will typically use a 3.5inch HD which has separate power and data connectors.
A Laptop will typically use a 2.5inch drive which usually has a combined socket.
What you could do is open the PC case and connect your loose laptop drive into a spare port, you would however need a SATA cable AND a spare power connection so probably not the best idea.
Good Luck, let us know how its going, or not ...
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