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

submitted 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have also seen it heavily pushed to the user, and sometimes people just agree to it without knowing they did.

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

Yes but in those cases, which it sounds like includes op, you should have it in your Microsoft account. I had a customer bring in a new PC they'd just purchased from Walmart that had a home license and already had bitlocker enabled. If I didn't catch it they could have lost any data saved to it from a botched update in the future.

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