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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 (2 children)

Where did you expect it to pop up

I expected it to show up under external devices on the steam deck

does the same work with other drives or usb sticks?

Unfortunately I don't have any others that I can try with

What type of SSD was in your laptop?

It's a 1T M.2 PCIe SSD

Whats the model name of the enclosure/adapter you are using

It's a FIDECO M.2 NVMe Enclosure

Was your laptop running windows?

Yes, it was running Windows 10

This is the laptop, if that helps: Link

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, it was running Windows 10

The steamdeck should support drives formatted to ntfs, but it might not mount automatically. Does the steamdeck have the application gparted preinstalled? Thats for formatting drives, but you can also just look at anything that might be detected but not in a readable state. If it doesnt show up in the drop down of devices (top right), then something is wrong.

I dont wanna make you use a terminal too much but if it doesnt show up in gparted then try running the command lsusb in a terminal which will list all your usb ports and devices connected to them. If that doesnt find something that looks like the nvme adapter then something is even more wrong.

[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

gparted isn't preinstalled, unfortunately. But when I use the command lsusb, I do see an entry for NVME adapter so it is recognising it

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did the laptop have encryption enabled? If it did, good luck.

[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think I turned on encryption, unless it's on by default in windows 10?