how do I mount and pull data from a hard drive that I removed from a crashed laptop ?

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I have the SATA wire and the hard drive hooked up but I am having trouble gaining access

 

[Guytronic]

Large drives will take time to read sometimes.
Especially via USB.

How is this drive interfaced?

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[RumoredNow]

When it happened to me, I purchased an external shell that was USB 3.0 and put the old HDD in that. I recovered my data and now have an external HDD to back things up to.


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[cactuspete23]

When it happened to me, I purchased an external shell that was USB 3.0 and put the old HDD in that. I recovered my data and now have an external HDD to back things up to.


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I did the same as RumoredNow. That will work, UNLESS your hard drive is encrypted ... Then it's more complicated