Re: [tlug] Windows and motherboards

[steve <sjs@example.com>]

On 10/26/24 10:39, Raymond Wan wrote:

> Why I thought of this while reading Steve's message is that booting
> off a USB drive and/or swapping hard disks with another computer were
> "standard" troubleshooting steps that we would do with a broken
> [desktop] computer.  So infuriating that this no longer works.  🙁
> Thanks, Microsoft...
>     
    I'm surprised that usually worked for you.  Usually
      machines of different ages and OS versions will have different
      hardware and therefore different hardware drivers.

You could probably get a USB adapter for the drives in question (assuming the newer machine has USB) and mount the disks on the newer machines and copy the user files on to the newer system.  Another possibility is finding an identical model PC and installing your drives on it -- if they aren't corrupted.

Were you trying to recover the data or re-use the hard drives?