My laptop died.
I removed the harddrive, it works fine.
I've got a 'communicator' which is just a dock you can attach to an HDD and access via usb.
I don't think I can boot into windows os from usb but I'm not sure if I could access and run programs on my housemates lappy from my HDD.
Google says it might work but slow, that's for a normal use external storage. Is it even different?
TLDR; can I run a program on a laptop from another HDD from another laptop still with Windows n that on.
I'd use VirtualBox or VMWare to make a virtual machine and copy from your now-USB HDD onto the VM's disk image. The computer running VirtualBox doesn't need to be Windows. This is as close as you'll get to resurrecting your old working environment without fixing the laptop.
My laptop died.
I removed the harddrive, it works fine.
I've got a 'communicator' which is just a dock you can attach to an HDD and access via usb.
I don't think I can boot into windows os from usb but I'm not sure if I could access and run programs on my housemates lappy from my HDD.
Google says it might work but slow, that's for a normal use external storage. Is it even different?
TLDR; can I run a program on a laptop from another HDD from another laptop still with Windows n that on.