Mounting a system SSD in th ewrong PC?

[stockhausen]

I have been asked to recover data off the SSD from a borked Laptop.
I have access to an identical working laptop.
I know that Windows checks that you have not loaded the system drive from one machine in another machine - in order to combat piracy.
What I don't know is the EXACT sequence of events if you do so.
I believe that a clock starts ticking and after a number of days the OS is disabled until you contact Microsoft.

• Will the system into which the system disk has been installed have ANY restricted functionality before the OS is disabled?
• What happens if before the OS is disabled you return the disk to the original system?

 

[bledd]

External USB hard drive caddy.

 

[Delta3D]

External USB hard drive caddy.

Do this. If you hook it up like that then it'll just act like a 2nd drive. Make sure you plug it in after it boots up tho so you don't accidentally boot into the external drive.

 

[wedrum]

yup handy things to have usb caddy.

 

[markweatherill]

I have been asked to recover data off the SSD from a borked Laptop.
I have access to an identical working laptop.
I know that Windows checks that you have not loaded the system drive from one machine in another machine - in order to combat piracy.

I am no expert but would think that the safest thing from a data recovery viewpoint would NOT be to boot from this SSD in another laptop!!

 

[Dynix]

I would not be booting into Windows on that SSD if you're trying to recover data from it. I would instead plug it in and use something like FalconFour's Ultimate Boot CD to recover the data: https://falconfour.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/falconfours-ultimate-boot-cd-v4-61-patch/

 

[stockhausen]

External USB hard drive caddy.

Thanks, good plan!

The SSD in question is a 120GB OCZ Vertex Plus. I tried reading it on my desktop system but it seems that the OCZ Vertex Plus SSD is incompatible with the Intel LGA1150 or the Haswell chipset, or the Intel Z97 Southbridge . . . or something - bizarre!

 

[SimonC]

You can get a sata to usb cable, might be a bit cheaper than getting a enclosure.

 

[stockhausen]

. . . too late, I have already ordered a caddy - DAMN!

 

[stockhausen]

. . . and it it didn't work with the OCZ Vertez 2 SSD.

I believe that this SSD uses a 1st generation SandForce controller which seems to be a wee bit "fussy".

I know that the caddy works because I have read two other 2½" SATA drives using it although it doesn't work with a 500 GB 3½" SATA drive that I have just tried.