Unable to read a W10 formatted disk using USB

[xwb]

I've taken out the disk of a dead W10 laptop and tried to read it to retrieve some files using a SATA USB Dock but it couldn't read the disk at all. I then stuck it into my son's desktop, which can take up to 4 of these 2.5" disks and it was able to read it.

What puzzles me is that the USB dock can read a W7 disk but not a W10 disk. The dock can read Linux disks.

Is there some security built into W10 that is antisocial to USB docks?
Could it be the age of the dock? The dock was bought around 2009
Could it be the size of the disk: W7 disk is 320Gb, W10 disk is 1Tb

 

[2ffat]

My first thought is that the dock cannot read large disks. Maybe there is a hard coded file size limit in the dock. Have you contacted the manufacturer?


James P. Cottingham
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[rclarke250]

yes, it is the size of the hdd in question. Older Sata to USB chips had limits, same as older media readers can not read the newer high capacity media devices.