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Taking a laptop's SSD and making it an external drive (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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Recently my laptop died. Thankfully, the issue wasn't the SSD. So I bought an external enclosure, took the SSD out of the laptop, and popped it into the external enclosure. I was hoping at that point, it would "just work".

I was hoping that when I plug it into my steam deck in desktop mode, it would recognise it and I could get some files off of it. Well, just one file really, my Sims 4 save. But it isn't recognised at all.

Is there anything I can do to get the save file off of the SSD? I can borrow someone else's (windows) laptop if necessary, though it didn't recognise it last time I plugged it in there either.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

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[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I don't know if it was encrypted. I don't think I set it to be, does windows do it automatically?

Do you have the recovery key for your drive?

Where would I find that? It's the drive that came with the laptop

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (9 children)

does windows do it automatically?

According to documentation, no. In practice, I've seen it happen multiple times.

Where would I find that?

If you didn't get screwed by Microsoft it would be in your Microsoft account. Go to office.com and log in.

[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Ok, there's an entry in my Microsoft account for bitlocker for my laptop, and I can see the recovery key. How do I use it to decrypt the drive though?

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Thunar just prompts me for a password when a plug a bitlocker encrypted disk on mine if it's not prompting you and you can't install a file manager that will you'll need a pc. You'll probably need a pc anyway because unless you have access to windows you can't actually decrypt the drive and will have to copy data off of it, reformat, and restore the data you need.

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