From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >  if it's just a BIOS lock, then moving the   
   > drive to another computer _should_ make them accessible, at least user   
   > files.   
      
   I agree with everything John said in his post I'm responding to but I want   
   to delve deeper in the explanation of his sentence above, where sometimes   
   people are on laptops or maybe they don't want to open up the case to   
   install a second SATA or M.2 NVMe SSD drive.   
      
   We don't necessarily need to put the target drive in another computer.   
   We can just boot to an >=8GB flash stick containing the Win10 ISO.   
      
   I recently created that Win10 ISO using Rufus on a 64GB flash stick and was   
   delighted that it worked perfectly for the desktop to boot to it.   
      
   Notice I only needed 8GB on the flash drive but I used a larger one.   
   Why?   
      
   Modern Rufus doesn't partition the drive to "only 8GB" anymore.   
   It leaves the rest of the flash card as 'extra space'.   
      
   So here's my experience that "might" be useful to the OP (assuming his   
   situation is "normal" in that it doesn't include business-like crypto).   
      
   1. Boot the laptop/desktop PC to the RUFUS flash drive Windows 10 ISO   
   2. Copy what you want from the original boot disk to the flash card   
      
   Voila!   
      
   As John stated, the "data" should transfer over easily, unless it's like   
   Paul said, cryptographically encrypted (e.g., using Truecrypt/Veracrypt).   
      
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