“can you remove a hard drive with vista on it from my old desktop and be able to still use it as an external hard drive on my HP windows 10 laptop as I have many programs and documents on the desktop which I still need to have access to.”
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You most certainly can (with the right connection apparatus). As far as the applications go, you will have to re-install them under Windows 10 from the installation media in order to use them again (assuming they are supported by Windows 10), but all documents will be readily available. I have done just this many times under virtually every version of Windows and most versions of DOS. I have Parallel-to-IDE, USB-to-IDE, and USB-to-SATA connectors to connect the old drive as an external (removable) drive. I have also been known to mount the old HDD as a secondary or tertiary internal HDD - they work just fine like that also.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Thanks for reaching out with that question! You may be able to connect this as an external hard drive if it has a proper external power source. It should be possible to transfer its contents to a more compatible external hard drive, and then connect this to your computer with Windows 10.
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