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usonian

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3. It has been a while, but I recall booting off an external drive and copying data from the internal drive.

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Tue Nov 19, 2024, 05:32 PM

Nov 2024

In the past, I backed up windows computers by booting off a Linux cd and copying from one drive to another.

It was one command. But just to suggest that idea: Booting off an external drive if there's a bootable operating system on it and you can set the BIOS to boot off that drive at startup.

Mainly, no drives had to be moved.

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Removing a hard drive? [View all] grumpyduck Nov 2024 OP

You typically can't just shift a drive and expect the software to work Abnredleg Nov 2024 #1

I have done it and it worked fine Kali Nov 2024 #2

It has been a while, but I recall booting off an external drive and copying data from the internal drive. usonian Nov 2024 #3

Yep canetoad Nov 2024 #4

If the hard drive is encrypted ItsjustMe Nov 2024 #5

One doesn't actually need an external case. This is what I use ... El-Capitan Nov 2024 #6