On 27/08/2019 12:55, Martin Brown wrote:
On 27/08/2019 12:45, Iain wrote:
I'm trying to read some old SATA drives using a Liteon Ultra enclosure.
windows disk management (Win10 Pro)sees the disk but says it needs to
be initialised, but trying to initialise as MBR fails.
Any ideas as to how to procede?
TIA Iain

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.


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