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!

  • theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.ukOP
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    1 month 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