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!
What type of SSD? There are basically four types:
2.5" SATA, looks like an old HDD
mSATA, a PCB with two screw holes.
M.2 SATA, a PCB with one screw hole and usually two notches.
M 2 PCIe/NVME, a PCB with one screw hole and usually only one notch.
The latter two are physically compatible but electrically not. It just won’t work.
It’s a 1T M.2 PCIe.
This is the laptop, if that helps: Link
And this is the enclosure I have: Link