can't see external SATA SSD connected via USB-C adapter with W10 laptop
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All on Mon Mar 31 11:38:29 2025
Hi All
I may be being a bit dim, but...
I want to hang a small (128GB) SATA SSD onto a Windows laptop via USB,
for backup purposes. I use Linux much more than Windows these days FWIW.
I have a USB-C SATA enclosure and can put the SSD drive in that.
Initially I connected this to my Linux desktop machine and formatted it
as NTFS - worked fine.
However when I connect this to the windows (W10) laptop, no drive seems
to be seen. Neither Device Manager nor "Drive Management" seem to have knowledge of it.
So I took a step back and wiped the drive in case I'd done something
wrong with partition types or filesystems etc. Still nothing. The laptop
is powered and I have tried both directly and via a powered dock. It's a Thinkpad BTW.
Oddly, the laptop does emit a notification 'ping' when I connect or
disconnect the cable. I have tried with different (new-ish) USB-C cables.
Am I missing something here? I should be able to simply plug this drive
in via one of these SATA to USB-C adapters, have it recognised, and
format it, shouldn't I?
Thanks in advance
J^n
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