Internal HDD on another computer

Bruce Hugo

Distinguished
Sep 2, 2013
95
5
18,665
I think I know what the answer is, but here it goes.

Can you take a internal hard drive from one computer put it in another and backup the drive?

More specifically recover the data from a no longer functioning ps3.
 
Solution
In principle, you could clone a drive, sector by sector, provided that BIOS was able to detect the drive. However, some drives are encrypted or have an proprietary file system, so it may not be possible to access the data.