Problem reading USB attached disk drives

Mount it in Linux and hope that can see the drive properly.

You may already have damaged it by trying to allow Win10 to write to it. A write protect switch is very handy when doing data recovery.

Boot a live linux CD and use better tools

Out of iunterest why are you usin an enclosure? isn't it easier to link the sata cables to your motherboard?

Will try Linux if I can find a CD. Using an enclosure as position of computer israther restricted. Enclosure has a slip on lid that makes it easy to change disk. thanks for your input. Iain

Will try Linux if I can find a CD. Thanks for your input. Iain

Short answer. Are you sure the old SATA drives are NTFS and not in fact FAT 32 ?

Googling "Win 10" and "FAT32" may answer your question and offer some possible solutions assuming Linux doesn't do the trick. Which it may well do, for all I know.

You're fortunate WIN10 refused to initialise the drives as that really would have been curtains.

michael adams

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You can make a bootable USB stick. It'll probably boot faster too.

Andy

Much easier to drop the drive(s) into a docking station and plug that into a USB3 port.

Yes Windows always attempts to plonk one of its .ini files on the disc and this can corrupt them. I've had similar problems with usb to ide on windows 7, yet it works on xp. I'm thinking maybe the wrong driver is being used. Also make sure, if the interface is capable to use one of the usb3 ports or you will be there for the duration!

Brian

You are the second person to mention CD, are you sure he should boot off a floppy.

Why don't people use USB sticks? I haven't had a CD for a decade.

Bootable USB sticks can be fiddly to make. I spend a few hours once ...

Thanks all for the suggestions. Turns out that the drives were paperwieghts. I put a known good drive in the enclosure and it worked.

Iain