Samsung SSD will not let me access files when it is external

[mrmike16]

Hi, so I just sold my laptop (finally). I switched out the SSD with it's original HDD since I wanted the SSD. Now I am on my desktop, using a hard drive dock which works with everything else, and trying to get my files off of the SSD.

What happens is when I click my folder "Owner" on the SSD, under Users, it tells me I need to get permission to access it. Which is normal. I click Continue, and it should take about 5 minutes to let me in. Instead, the green bar (which appears in the address bar of File Explorer) stays at the end, slightly over the stop button, and will not finish. I tried this a few times and let it sit there for hours.

I also had to turn off the dock when I attempted to make my desktop the owner of the folder. It didn't say who the current owner was, and froze when trying to change it. Couldn't cancel it either.

Is there something wrong with it? It is a Samsung Evo 500 GB. Bought it a little over a year ago but I didn't use it so much. Mostly my desktop and Surface 3 (till that broke...).

 

[mrmike16]

I've had this issue with several usb docks and larger HDD anything over the 250gb area


They basically drag the system they are connected to to a crawl and keep timing out and having issues
Never found a solution others then connecting them internally

This is very interesting. That's exactly what is going on. I figured reading an SSD should be super easy, especially over USB 3.0. And it's a 500 GB. But I've used this dock with 1 TB drives!

Here's the problem with using it internally- It is running my laptop's copy of Windows 10. My desktop (what I'm using), also uses an SSD. If I swap the SSDs, I think my desktop will be very confused. I believe there is only one place to put an SSD on this tower- on the bottom.

But I could try just putting it in insecurely, having it rest on the HDD in the HDD bay...

Update: You were correct. Inside the PC, the SSD is working fine. I'm going to run a test on it to make sure, now that I am able to. Very strange, the way it was acting with the dock. Maybe it was a problem with Windows 10?

For those who have suggestions about the USB ports issue, please answer my newer thread here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3506212/usb-ports-shutting-boot-puppy-linux.html

Thank you, everyone!

Unfortunately, we don't seem to have a solution for those who are using a dock with a sealed PC (With no capability of adding or switching hard drives inside the machine), such as an All-in-One, a 3-in-1, or a tablet PC.

Glad I could help with that issue. Most probably ( I Guess) it's a Windows issue, not some hardware problem. That's why in these types of cases, Linux almost always seems to help

If only I could use it 🙁