mac hard drive in my compaq?

[rust.puppet]

hey guys, i was just fiddling arround inside my compaq presario m2000 laptop which is like 6 years old and i found my hard drive and popped it out and found a apple logo on it... just wondering why my laptop would have that in it.

it may be aftermarket i cant remember for the life of me if i ever switched it out but anyways, if i need it down the road could i partition it and use it either in a alu macbook or as an external drive (just buying a casing for it)

 

[The Samurai]

Funny, I have the same laptop and I am trying to get rid of it

 

[velocityg4]

If it has an SATA interface it should work in a Macbook otherwise it will not work as a spare internal.

However it should be fine to use with an external enclosure for a backup drive. Though I would opt for a new hard drive rather than an old one that has been bumped through two computers already. Just for reliability.

 

[rust.puppet]

yeah, they were notorious for setting peoples houses on fire, they had a huge recall... ive been through 3 compaq/hp computers that only lasted 3 months, this one is barely running with a cracked screen. its supposed to be like 15 inches and i can only see the left half of the screen about 12.5 inches.