My workhorse for the past 2 years has just now died. It started out with a loose power adapter unit in the back, now it totally broke off to a point where its irrepairable. I felt like an ER doctor, trying to save it's life... but its gone. I unscrewed the screen, took out the hard drive, the keyboard and other major parts to the computer. My question is... since I took out my hard drive, can I just simply take it to another laptop and plug it in and use it like I was before? Right now I am using my desktop and this week I will be "parting out" parts from my laptop on ebay.