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   From: ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message , David Kaye   
    writes   
   >"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.   
   >   
   I very much doubt that the drives were 'bad'. They certainly spun OK,   
   and they worked fine after I initialized them (as I described, but   
   you've snipped that bit). I presume they had been absolutely, totally   
   wiped (a wise precaution if you are selling your old hard drives) - and   
   it's also possible that they had previously been used on a non-Windows   
   operating system.   
      
   When a brand new disk is straight off the production line, and is   
   totally blank, will an operating system know it is there until it has   
   been mounted/initialized or whatever?   
   --   
   Ian   
      
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