My Lenovo laptop will not boot up for Windows because it is not detecting the hard drive. If I connected this external hard drive to my laptop, will it allow my laptop to boot up and transfer my files? null

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Leroy · Answer

Probably not. You would have to have a bootable OS on this drive before you could boot up your laptop to it. You could certainly connect it to another laptop or desktop, install a bootable version of Linux or something, boot up your laptop with it and then transfer files, but you certainly can't do it right out of the box.

Answered by Leroy 5 years ago

“My Lenovo laptop will not boot up for Windows because it is not detecting the hard drive. If I connected this external hard drive to my laptop, will it allow my laptop to boot up and transfer my files?”

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