Lardman wrote:
ruede wrote:
Yes my goal is to clone it asap but it freezes a few seconds after accepting the Win10 password on start-up.
You're not trying to boot into windows from the drive are you ? Clone it from another operating system on another drive. hhdsuperclones livecd should do.
If this is important take it to a professional before the drive dies completely.
Thanks for the hhdsuperclone suggestion - the direct USB mode on it is what I need. My problem is that this SSD is not recognised by my system when plugged in as an external drive.
You're right about the wisdom of taking it someone who knows what they're doing but I live in a remote rural part of France where such persons don't exist. I'd like to have a go at getting it to work (ie. without taking silly risks) long enough to clone the contents. If not I'll take a trip to the big smoke to get help.