Repurposes Hard Drives

GeorgeAF

GeorgeAF

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I had an HP Pavilion 360X convertible laptop running on Windows 10. It was a great laptop/notebook. I say it was because it recently just stopped working. I am trying to repurpose it's hard drive into a multimedia drive as it had lots of movies and music. My question is, if I get the 2'5 enclosure, will I be able to plug and play the hard drive into my TV and be able to view all the movies? Another concern is that I had a password on the laptop so I want to know if that won't be. A problem in terms of accessing the files.
 
Good Morning,

Can your TV read from NTFS?
Password, depend if it is the normal Windows password or a HDD encryption password.

If only Windows password, then you would be able to access the data.

Worst case scenario, you need to backup media, format disk, copy media back.

My LG TV can read from HDD with NTFS.
 
gfmalan said:
Good Morning,

Can your TV read from NTFS?
Password, depend if it is the normal Windows password or a HDD encryption password.

If only Windows password, then you would be able to access the data.

Worst case scenario, you need to backup media, format disk, copy media back.

My LG TV can read from HDD with NTFS.
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Good Morning
My TV can read NTFS. And it was just the normal Windows password. the files were saved in the preset Video and Movie folders. Which directory must I follow to access them as I believe these will not appear on the root folder?
 
If you are sure that drive would never go back into that notebook, you can connect it to other notebook once in enclosure, make a new folder in root, say Videos, move everything to that folder, then delete everything else (preflogs,program files and x86,windows and users)

Then you have a clean drive with only your videos.
(Or other files like photos and files)
 
gfmalan said:
If you are sure that drive would never go back into that notebook, you can connect it to other notebook once in enclosure, make a new folder in root, say Videos, move everything to that folder, then delete everything else (preflogs,program files and x86,windows and users)

Then you have a clean drive with only your videos.
(Or other files like photos and files)
Click to expand...
Thank you so much for your help.
 
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