My Lenovo Legion Y520 laptop recently died—it lost power, wouldn’t boot, and then the CPU fried after I left it plugged in, hoping it might magically come back to life. Now, I’ve accepted it’s a lost cause and it’s too costly to repair.
I still want to access my data from the SSD though, but it has a full OS on it. If I use a SATA-USB adapter to connect the SSD to my new laptop, will that cause any issues with the OS overlap? Or is it generally safe to just plug it in without doing anything special?
@Chan
You can check by logging into your Windows account. If BitLocker is on, your key will be saved there. I didn’t know mine had BitLocker until I plugged it into an external SSD mount!
Only thing that might come up is booting. Your computer might try to boot from the new SSD instead of your main one. You can fix this by changing the boot order in the BIOS.
Charley said:
Only thing that might come up is booting. Your computer might try to boot from the new SSD instead of your main one. You can fix this by changing the boot order in the BIOS.
Yeah, I read that checking the BIOS boot order is a good idea to make sure it’s loading the right drive first.