Or an external caddy.
Except! Depending on whether the disc was encrypted? TPM + bitlocker it may not be so straight forward.
It is certainly less stress and pain to have a reliable back up regime. Whole of system for when the main drive/s fail and one needs the system back ASAP. Regular data backups for any failure any time.
Working for myself in a past life I have great empathy for anyone caught out by a drive or PC/laptop crash. My only sad tale being one obsessed with redundancy - a USB drive that was accidentally flicked across the room onto a concrete wall. Stone dead, with the most recent content not yet duplicated being off line at the time.
I’d not be quite so blunt,
There are several Choice topics devoted to how we can all find better solutions,
