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   From: sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com   
      
   "Ian Jackson"  wrote   
      
   > At a car boot sale, I bought a couple of old hard drives. When I connected   
   > them with a USB adaptor, IIRC that the USB connection showed up, but the   
   > disk didn't appear as a drive in My Computer.   
      
   Sounds like bad hard drives.  This can happen if they haven't been used in   
   awhile.  The older ones can freeze and simply not spin, even if the   
   electronics begins to recognize the drives.   
      
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