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Old 01-24-2025, 06:33 PM   #46
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It's pretty easy these days*, they have all kinds of USB adapters for HDD and SSDs... something like this for an HDD...
https://www.amazon.com/SABRENT-SATA-...011M8YACM?th=1

Confirm what kind of hard drive it has, open it up and confirm you can get it out of there, buy the USB converter for it, then plug it into the new device.

*I say this as a Linux user, which easily opens drives from these converters... Windows may complicate things, because Windows..... but, the converters are cheap, at least.
Windows can be kind of finicky with this. Obviously, your machine needs to at least be able to read NTFS volumes in order to access files on the external drive. It's difficult to do more than snatch individual files because the NTFS filesystem is so proprietary. And even with a new windows machine, you can run into Windows permissions issues that can prevent you from using the external drive to its fullest. Have I mentioned I hate Windows?
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