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From:Ralph
Date:25 Oct 2000 at 08:44:05
Subject:Re: (Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs'

Hello TOM

On 24-Oct-00, you wrote:

> Gorden Moss helpfully stated:-
>
>>> I recently purchases two 2.5in. Hard Drives at a computer fair (the
>>> seller not having tested them), that had been stripped from Laptops
>>> and I'm wondering have I lost my 'gamble'.

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> I wish to goodness I could do that, but how, when HDInstall and
> HDTools don't recognise that the drives exist? Believe me, I've
> tried!

Do you know any one with a PC and or a Laptop ?

is so ask them to do an unformat .

Don't know why , but I have had a couple of 2½ drives that could not be
seen till they had been unformated ??????????



Ralph

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