- Oct 28, 2005
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My friend's laptop died and she needs to grab her homework off the SATA drive. What I am thinking is that instead of paying the local shop $200, she can get a SATA to USB hard drive enclosure for $10, put the drive in the enclosure and view its contents on another computer.
I can't remember if there will be any trouble trying to view a boot drive when you are not booting off of it. I know back when I had two boot drives installed that I had to do some tricks to get the right one booted, but I just want to make sure that she can boot normally and then simply connect the USB drive and view the files. Now that I read this back over it feels like a silly question to ask, but I do not want to make this too tricky seeing as I'm not there to poke around on the computer for her.
I can't remember if there will be any trouble trying to view a boot drive when you are not booting off of it. I know back when I had two boot drives installed that I had to do some tricks to get the right one booted, but I just want to make sure that she can boot normally and then simply connect the USB drive and view the files. Now that I read this back over it feels like a silly question to ask, but I do not want to make this too tricky seeing as I'm not there to poke around on the computer for her.
