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Old 12-29-2024, 04:06 AM
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Originally Posted by delta925 View Post
Only if the drive is not protected or encrypted.
If it is then at best more work, at worst all but impossible and inbetween unless very high probability of accessing something 'interesting' not wort the effort.
That depends on the encryption used. If the laptop was running Windows, then you can most probably crack it by letting your machine work on the drive overnight. If it was Linux with LUKS and some serious combo of cipher and hash, then just don't bother, format it and you've got a new hard drive for yourself.
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