Reading a Micro-PCIexpress SSD

[Syran]

My wife's Windows is Kaput, and even thou I always tell her to back up her data, she of course, never does. Anyway, the SSD is fine, but I really don't want to reinstall windows on top of itself and risk losing her data (I know 99% of the time it's fine, but I've had something funky blow up on me before), so I'd like to pull the data off the ssd first. Problem is, I have no way to plug this drive into another computer as it's a micro-pcie ssd, and I don't have any motherboards or other laptops that support it, nor have I found an easy way to read one when searching online. (pulled the drive out of a Dell XPS13 Ultrabook.)

Can anyone help, or point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

 

[Roman2179]

Have you thought about running a linux live cd and just copying everything off of the machine that way?

Download a copy of Ubuntu and you can run it directly off of the DVD. It should mount the system drives then you can copy off the files you need. I've done that on several laptops because I didn't want to pull the drives.

 

[greenhawk]

an adaptor of some kind would seem to be the best option. something like this might work (quick google search).

http://compare.ebay.com.au/like/321...s&cbt=y&_lwgsi=y&lpid=45&item_id=321018035347

http://compare.ebay.com.au/like/320...s&cbt=y&_lwgsi=y&lpid=45&item_id=320657242069

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/mini-pcie-ssd-adapter