Need help getting Scenes off of a drive from a PC that broke down

[GoldenTerrabyte]

A little over a month ago, my gaming laptop went out on me. It cost a pretty astronomical price to repair, so I'm saving to get a tower instead next.
The SSDs inside were undamaged, and given to me. I'm running OBS off of an old backup laptop in the interim, and I want to recover the scenes I had set up previously, but because the previous laptop is inaccessible, I have no way of exporting the scene data with OBS. Can I recover the scene data from the SSD I have from the laptop?

 

[rockbottom]

Get a drive enclosure or better yet a docking station.

 

[koala]

If you have access to the SSD and it has some drive letter in Windows, you will see there is a similar directory structure on that SSD as on your current machine on C:.
OBS saves its data into C:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\obs-studio. So replace the C: with the drive letter of your SSD and you will find the OBS configuration directory from your crashed laptop.

Since every Windows installation has different internal IDs for devices such as audio devices, monitor devices and video capture devices, your old configuration isn't directly usable. You can try renaming the obs-studio directory on your current machine, then copy the obs-studio directory from your salvaged ssd in its place. Then OBS will run with that old config. Make sure you first install every plugin you had on your crashed machine, otherwise the config refers to non present plugins.

If you already did work on your backup PC and want to merge your old config into your new config, do as above, then do Scene Collection > Export. Close OBS, delete the copied obs-studio directory and rename the renamed obs-studio directory back. This way you have your OBS config back on your backup machine and additionally an export of your crashed scene collection. Now start OBS and import that export file you just created.