Reading with SSD X300 Sata to USB Controller

Hey Guys,
my x300 stopped working so I want to get my data from the SSD of the x300. I bought a Sata to USB cable and connected the SSD to a Windows and a Mac Computer. Both recognize the SSD but cannot execute any operations like reading or writing. 
In fact in Windows the SSD is not listed as a hard drive but in the utility manager the SATA-USB Controller appears.
However, probably I am just naive and the SSD is encrypted or something but I don't even know what to google here so please give me a hint on how to retrieve data from this SSD!
Regards

Hi Maddes,
Welcome to Lenovo Community!
As per your query we understood that you are facing the issue SSD drive.
I regret to inform you that we do not have any application or hardware to recovery the data, however you can go through the below link, hopefully you can get some clues on that.
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/X-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Adapter-for-retrieving-data-from-x1-ssd/m-p/15...
Hope this helps. 
Best regards,
Hemanth Kumar
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