3F0 error on startup, wants to secure data

[flyingsprot]

Hi, a problem that feels very distressing right now.

So.. I had some DDR4 RAM lying around, and decided to try and install on HP Desktop. Well, I shouldn't have done that, because when I booted it up afterwards, it gave a 3F0 error and wouldn't boot.

So... searched and found this: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_3053911-2842957-16

I have done steps 1 and 3, doing the troubleshooting and searching for disk errors, both the short and long search, and they found nothing wrong with the disk.

However, upon restarting the computer, I still get an error 3F0.

Now, here's the thing. I have recently bought a new desktop computer, and what I am wondering now is if there is a way to securely transfer the files from the SSD on the old desktop to the new one somehow... that will be priority number one.

Of course, if I could get the old computer up and running normally, that would have been nice too, but for now the data on the SSD is the most important thing.

The old computer only has one SSD, the one the OS is installed on. Just out of curiosity, would it be to risky to take the SSD out of the old computer and into the new computer? The new computer has two SSD slots.

Or will it work to take the SSD out of the old computer, put it inside an M2 USB cabinet of this type: https://no.rs-online.com/web/p/hard-drive-enclosures/2884556

I realize that I have done something really unclever that I shouldn't have done, and now I just want to secure my data. I do have a backup, but it is from November last year, so there is still some data in between then and now that I would like to salvage. A hard lesson learned to do backups as often as possible.

Thanks for any replies.

[flyingsprot · Accepted solution]

Turn out all I had to do was to disable secure boot once I found the option, and that seems to have solved the problem.