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I have “mint” on a usb drive and can boot to it and see the hard drive from there. That way you don’t have to have a bunch of adapters. If the MB is bad you can remove the drive and put it into a desktop SATA connection. Even if the drive is messed up and can’t boot, you can still usually find the video files and other docs and offload them from the mint usb as long as the drive spins.

[japaneseghost]

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[TheCipher]

I have “mint” on a usb drive and can boot to it and see the hard drive from there. That way you don’t have to have a bunch of adapters.

Yeah, I would have mentioned that too, but he said the laptop was dead so I thought it may have been a power issue or circuit board issue and thus the laptop wasn't bootable.