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!

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    The neighboring comment by just_another_person links to a tool that can be used to read bitlocker drives. It might be easier to just find another windows device to do the job tho. If losing the files on the drive would be catastrophic, then fucking around with lots of terminal stuff that you dont understand might not be the best.

    Also, if you dont wanna install gparted you can still check the list of connected drives by running lsblk -f in a terminal.

    • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.ukOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      It might be easier to just find another windows device to do the job tho

      Yeah, I think that’s what I’ll need to do. I found a guide here detailing how to decrypt a bitlocker encrypted drive, I’ll give that a go when I’m able to borrow a windows machine

      Also, if you dont wanna install gparted

      I want to, but the steam deck isn’t having it. It’s arch based, so need to use pacman, but that just gives an error when I try