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I want to use my laptop like an external hard drive.

How can I completely access my laptop's storage on another computer with the help of any cable?

Can we mount a particular partition of the laptop on another PC?

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    Actually you could do it with network cables. why do you want to do this?
    – Moab
    Feb 28, 2015 at 18:55
  • As a practical i wanna do this
    – Harshit Panchal
    Feb 28, 2015 at 18:58
  • "Can you" and "How" are two different questions. @Moab's comment addresses "can you". "How" would be an overly broad question, even if you narrow it down with OS and hardware specs.
    – fixer1234
    Feb 28, 2015 at 18:59
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    As a practical joke?
    – NReilingh
    Feb 28, 2015 at 20:14

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If your laptop is a Mac, you can put your system bus into Target Disk Mode, allowing you to effectively use your laptop as a FireWire or Thunderbolt interface for the internal storage device (HDD or SSD).

If the laptop is a PC, you do not have this option. You must either boot the machine into an operating system and share the drive using a network-based protocol over any network interface, or use something like a USB Bridge Cable.

Unfortunately for PCs, this means it's usually just easiest to yank out the internal drive and connect it to a USB interface if you need to bypass the laptop hardware for file recovery.

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  • odds are its not a Mac, as Mac users are a bit more savvy than the question reveals.
    – Moab
    Feb 28, 2015 at 20:32
  • @Moab I'm well aware, just like to be thorough.
    – NReilingh
    Feb 28, 2015 at 20:34

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