My windows computer died but I managed to copy hard drive onto a Realtek SSD enclosure (NGFF and NVME) - finally through the Disk Utilities I managed to find it but no place else. I cannot open it to examine the files I lost. (Does it sound like I know what I am talking about, because I don't )
Any help welcome - thanks
My windows computer died ...
Are you trying to open the drive on a Mac? If so, which one and what OS version is it running?
It sounds like you may have seen the physical drive appear in Disk Utility.
FYI, macOS is not very good at being able to access or troubleshoot issues with a foreign drive.....it doesn't even do very well with the Apple internal drives from the factory, much less a third party file system that may be corrupt, or especially a drive that may be having hardware issues.
Unfortunately there are a lot of ways to copy a drive....many of which may not allow a Mac to access them.
You also have to consider the possibility that the SSD is bad & is why the Windows computer "died".
While I applaud you for wanting to do this on your own, you may need to contact a local tech to assist you in assessing the SSD & recovering the files from it. Sometimes being able to physically see things first hand is required to properly assess a situation.
First would be how did you "copy the drive"?
Depending on what method you used, it may only be readable on a Windows machine with Windows software.
Cannot open Realtek SSD Enclosure
