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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1[Actually you could do it with network cables](http://www.wikihow.com/Connect-Two-Computers-Together-with-an-Ethernet-Cable). why do you want to do this? – Moab Feb 28 '15 at 18:55
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As a practical i wanna do this – Harshit Panchal Feb 28 '15 at 18:58
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"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 '15 at 18:59
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1As a practical _joke_? – NReilingh Feb 28 '15 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 '15 at 20:32
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