Accessing ThinkCentre hard disks via StarTech USB caddy

Hi,
I have a unit that died after some years of use and abuse but the HDD seems to be OK as far as I can establish it. I have a StarTech USB caddy but when I try to access the drive, I find only what appear to be 3 small partitions rather then the whole drive contents amounting to 5% of the drive capacity, what am I missing?
Have not tried recovering drive contents before and am wondering if the 95% that is missing is hidden by a Lenovo software switch, if so how do I gain access?
Many thanks in advance,
Andy

I was having this problem with my new MacBook Air when trying to backup to a AFP share provided by Netatalk running on a Gentoo Linux server. Time Machine would begin creating a disk image (populating the "bands" directory) but would abort with "the backup disk image could not be created" and the in-progress disk image would be deleted from the server.
On a whim, I tried something that ended up working:
1. Start Time Machine backup. Wait a little.
2. On the server, make a copy (cp -r) of the in-progress disk image.
3. Let Time Machine fail and delete the image.
4. Rename (mv) the copy created earlier to the same name of the deleted Time Machine sparsebundle image.
5. (I'm not sure at all if this part was necessary:) Delete the last, incomplete "band" created by Time Machine in blah.sparsebundle/bands (the smallest and last-alphabetically one).
6. Start Time Machine again.
Files seem to be copying now. Too early to say if the backup will work completely (looks like it will take all night), but this is definitely the farthest I've gotten.

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