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Originally Posted by cjd
You might be able to boot to clonezilla and clone the drive, the recover on the new one. Good luck!
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Originally Posted by elBarto
I use an USB stick with a linux distro installed. If I just want to look at the files I use a live LinuxMint install. If I need to copy files I use my USB with MXlinux installation (you can install this on a USB with a persistent option).
As long as the hard drive hasn't been encrypted you just click on the drive in the file explorer and you can access and copy over the necessary files
Linux doesn't care if there's a Windows password being used.
I can open the Documents folder, "Program files" folder and more and watch the full contents. That's something you can't do with a different Windows install.
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thanks for the help, i just decided to start fresh. while i like the idea of clonezilla, and started downloading it, i realized that i can't trust the clone to not have obscure data corruption due to the apparently-failing ssd. i feel my main failure point here is microsofts 'automated repair tools'--my only option is the automated process, instead of a sector replacement. their previous dumber tools generally did better at data repair. so even if i had copied the drive contents, the repair would likely still fail due to the 'intelligence' involved in the software running the repair.
i've now got 2 samsung m.2's, which ought to be a little more reliable, setup in a raid1 configuration, and am ordering some additional m.2 heatsinking to try to further mitigate future issues. at the very least, i'm distributing my failure modes across 2 drives, the likelyhood of both drives failing at the same time being close to zero, barring a major power event/mb failure, at which point i've got larger issues anyways.
for now, i'm copying what i can off the old ssd, and then laying it to rest in the spare parts bin.