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Spectra
Asked: 2018-09-18 06:22:25 +0800 CST

Does normal HDD enclosure work with Ubuntu?

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Previously I owned a Windows7 laptop which had died few days back. My new laptop runs Ubuntu 16.04.

Now I want to use the HDD of previous laptop as external. I can do that right (running windows hdd in ubutu as external) ?

So, before buying any enclosure I wanna know if I need any special kind of enclosure to make it work with Ubuntu or all these random enclosure works fine. Thanks.

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  1. Best Answer

    No special kind of enclosure should be required and Ubuntu should be able to read the NTFS partitions without issue.

    I've used a dock like this one before without issue.

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