➡ If you've got an old hard drive and you want to get data off of it, there are several approaches.

Getting files from an old hard drive
There are a few approaches to accessing files from an old hard drive:

Install it in an external USB drive enclosure.
Use a USBtodrive transfer cable.
Boot from a “live” USB and copy the data to a USB stick or external drive.

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0:00 Get files from old hard drive
0:52 Solution 1: Make it an external drive
1:50 Solution 2: A temporary USB interface
3:36 Solution 3: Boot from something else
4:40 Caveat: When it won’t work
7:18 Prevent the issue

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