2.5" or 3.5" external drive?
I know you can take the 3.5" external drives apart. What you're left with is a 3.5" sata drive (2.5" maybe
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, never took one apart).
What usually fails is the USB / SATA adapter that's part of the external drive.
Once you have the drive apart, plug drive into a computer....................