Eventually, after I had woken up, I realised that I needed two power connections, one to power the gadget and one to power the drive. (How stupid can one get?) I tried to install Windows XP and got as far as the formatting stage then progress stopped. The drive was working according to the little LED on the gadget but that was all.
I conclude that my efforts to recycle old and rather decrepit hard drives is not going to work and that if I want another drive it will have to be a new one. Norman -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
