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!
I believe it is encrypted, but I was able to get the key from my Microsoft account
I’ll have to have a proper look into that, I’ve never done anything like that before. Thank you for the suggestion!
If you aren’t tech savvy, that key + DART might be your “easiest” course of action.
Having a look around on that link, when I try to download DART, I’m asked to log in with a work or school account, personal ones aren’t allowed. It also sounds like it needs a subscription. So, not sure if this will work for me, or if I just clicked the wrong thing.
I did find an article here that details how to decrypt a drive that’s been encrypted with bitlocker, do you think that would work?
Wow, they won’t let you use DART with a personal account? That’s fucked. Thanks for the link! I don’t see why it wouldn’t work.