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that make no difference

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Something else is wrong, try the old HDD + Enclosure on someone elses comp?

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you might have to install some drivers or something


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Not for a USB enclosure. Never seen one that needs drivers for any OS other than <= Win98 - and I've seen many and varied HDD enclosures.

Maybe a weirdo Vista thing, but I can't see MS removing generic drivers that were present in XP.... surely?

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you are not running Vista x64 are you? That would make all the difference...