troubles with reading SATA disc via USB

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Hello All,

The motherboard died on my desktop PC and I bought a SATA to USB dual dock to hook up my bare internal hard disks to my laptop via usb.

They are discovered fine.

However, accessing it is completely random. Sometimes it's so slow (like takes 20 minutes between tasks before ultimately failing).

The drive I'm trying to read from is my old windows drive so I'm thinking permissions is an issue, or maybe since it's a bootable volume it's having trouble?

I even tried accessing it via ubuntu live cd but even linux says there is a job pending on the drive or tells me to run chkdsk /f via windows on the drive (which I have done, and completes successfully with no errors).

Any help?

Thanks!

EDIT| More info. The LED indicator light for the respective drive on the dock is always blinking.
 
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Either there is malware on the drive or the drive has errors on it and you need to scan it. What brand of drive is it?
 
I did scan it with windows chkdsk utility which reported no errors.

It is a 160GB Western Digital WD1600AAJS-00Z4A0.

I wonder if I can scan it with adaware and spybot. I think I'll give that a shot.
 
Thanks, I will try that if these scans with adaware and spybot don't do anything. Taking a long time.. thousands of files being scanned over USB.. yikes! Wish I had an esata port lol.
 
Okay, everything checks out fine.

I have noticed that I can access the drive fine except when it comes to areas that need elevated permissions, like H:\Users\Scott (which is where very important files of mine are located).

I even let it go for hours trying to get into that folder (clicked continue when it said I needed elevated permissions). It just sits there with the LED indicator blinking and I can't get in.

I've checked out the security tab on the drive, but I have no clue what I'm doing.

Any way I can have full access to this drive?

EDIT| Or force a read only mode?
 
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What version of Windows is on the drive in question and what version of Windows is on the computer you're trying to access the drive from?

If it's a permissions issue and your computer is running Win 7 then you should be prompted that you need to take ownership of the files/folders in question.
 
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