Laptop battery recently died, and I’m planning a new PC build anyway, so I’m wondering: can I just remove the HDD from my laptop and connect it to the motherboard? Would I need any extra parts or hardware? I’m guessing no, but it’s hard to research on my phone. Any guidance is appreciated :) thanks!

  • berryjam@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for pointing that out! I’m not too worried, I figure I can configure the BIOS to boot from my hdd

      • berryjam@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 years ago

        Oh, why not? Is it not similar to booting from a USB drive? The OS is Arch Linux and the drive is not encrypted.

          • berryjam@lemmy.worldOP
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            2 years ago

            Hmm, I do have some battery-specific configs, but they shouldn’t make a difference, and they’re trivial to deactivate.

            The Linux kernel generally includes drivers for anything you could want, so I’m not concerned about crashes related to drivers.

            Thanks for the concern anyway :)