Unless you're already expecting on reinstalling the operating system and everything with the software that your computer came with, you'll also need a way to transfer your data (including the operating system and programs) over to the new drive before it will really work in your computer, that means you'll need a hard drive enclosure and software made to do that so you can transfer everything before the drive swap.
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