"John" wrote in message
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I took my external hard drive to my daughter's house to 'lift' a video and
some music of her note book PC which has Windows 7.

I assumed that I would be able to just plug into the USB port - but the
note book would identify the external drive - but wouldn't open it or even
acknowledge anything was on it.

Any ideas what was the issue - would I need to install the drivers onto
the notebook?



You need to set permissions for the drive, have a quick Google
on 'take possession' of a drive/folder etc.

IOW's the file protection system is working and you need to take
ownership of the drive contents.

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