<p dir="ltr">Most external drives (especially enclosed ones) will keep a key on the disk itself that's checked against the enclosure's firmware, and only work once validated. If that's not the case, the one Derek linked should work just fine.<br>
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Timothy</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 4:29 PM Derek B. Noonburg <<a href="mailto:derekn@foolabs.com">derekn@foolabs.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've been using one of these:<br>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-External-Docking-Station-Support/dp/B00CE65C4W/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/ORICO-External-Docking-Station-Support/dp/B00CE65C4W/</a><br>
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with Linux, and it works fine.<br>
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- Derek<br>
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On 2017 Sep 12, <a href="mailto:cecrops@sandwich.net" target="_blank">cecrops@sandwich.net</a> wrote:<br>
> I'm looking to get information off of a laptop hard drive. Is there a<br>
> hackerspace around here that has something like a USB enclosure for<br>
> laptop-size drives?<br>
><br>
> I'm a bit sour on blindly buying commercial solutions since I once bought an<br>
> external USB drive to get info off of a desktop SATA drive and it turned out<br>
> that the USB enclosure was somehow keyed to the drive it came with and refused<br>
> to read a different drive. If someone knows of a product that works, I'll take<br>
> recommendations.<br>
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