Booting with two Windows installation ?

[TroghleM]

I'm in front of a classic "laptop too old to be worth repairing suddenly died, but the data on it was important can you please recover it ?"

 

The laptop was running a M.2ssd (it's a lenovo 100s 14ibr), so I'm wondering how plug'n play it would be if just took it out, plugged it in my desktop, booted on my own ssd (I believe the laptop ran on an OEM version of Win, so the hardware change would probably caus activation problem), and just took the data from it and copied it to my hard drives. The laptop did not have a password, so would I be able to access it directly like I can access my own boot drive ?

 

Is there anything special I should take care of considering the OEM ssd and the OEM windows Install?

[emosun]

You might need to play with the uefi settings on the supporting machine so it doesn't try to mess with something.

But from what I know so long as the in question m2 ssd wasn't encrypted the data should be recoverable if it's used as a secondary drive. Can try linux too if windows doesn't want to browse it.

[TroghleM]

21 minutes ago, emosun said:

You might need to play with the uefi settings on the supporting machine so it doesn't try to mess with something.

But from what I know so long as the in question m2 ssd wasn't encrypted the data should be recoverable if it's used as a secondary drive. Can try linux too if windows doesn't want to browse it.

Hmm, yeah, to make sure I have no conflict between the two I'm thinking about making a bootable Linux USB, set usb as the main boot device, and move the file from there. I'll probably try that.