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Based on the author's last comment, the solution may have worked.
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Based on the author's last comment, the solution may have worked.

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we have a windows 2012 r2 server and as an alternative added backup, we've windows server backup running which backups up to an external dedicated drive. <br />
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Server died. <br />
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want to know if I can take the usb drive and plug it into another &nbsp;windows 10 computer and extract the data. &nbsp; and How.
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we have a windows 2012 r2 server and as an alternative added backup, we've windows server backup running which backups up to an external dedicated drive. 

Server died. 

want to know if I can take the usb drive and plug it into another  windows 10 computer and extract the data.   and How.

recover data from USB External drive that was used for windows server backups.

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Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.