I recently built a new PC and I'm trying to access data from my old SSD that had Windows 10 installed, which includes some important documents I need to recover. I connected the SSD using a USB enclosure, but it isn't appearing in disk management or diskpart. Just a week ago, it was working fine before I upgraded to an AMD motherboard from an Intel one.
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Have you checked if BitLocker was enabled on your old SSD? If it was, that could be why it’s not accessible yet. BitLocker uses a key tied to the old motherboard's TPM, so if that’s the case, you’d need to disable it on the old machine before accessing the drive.
I forgot to mention that I didn’t disable BitLocker. I might need to see if it was even enabled since I was just running Windows 10. Disk management is also prompting me to initialize it after a restart, which I definitely don't want to do.