Have a new IBM travel hard drive on a toshba laptop you are reciving no ROM basic use toshba basic?

Yes you can use an external hard drive on a laptop. The only issue i can see arising is if you have an external hard drive which draws power from the USB system. Many of the smaller external hard...

if u have old verson computer and u want to use external hearde drive means accer Travel mat 529 ATx like this model u use "y" cabel. otherwise new model computer USB port to nconnect it will start...

You need to clarify your question - it will restart when you turn the laptop on, but you may have to reload the operating system to get the computer to work.

you can use it in an external enclosure that connects to the laptop using either USB, firewire, etc. However, you will never have enough room to install a genuine hard disk inside a decent laptop...

The term is normally presented as a single word 'harddrive' or hyphenated as 'hard-drive', either is acceptable. Also 'harddisk'. Almost all notebook / laptop computers use 2 1/2 inch (2.5") drives,...