Can u hook up a 2nd hard drive to a gateway laptop

xwarnerx1

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ok i have a older gateway laptop and the hard drive is about to fail so "i need to find a ghost what i can put on a dvd and boot from there" so ive been told can any one help
 

dingo07

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how do you know the drive is about to fail...?

more importantly, if you know that, why don't you buy a new one and install it, then copy your data from the "failing" one, so that you don't lose it "when" it fails...