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OK apparently the drive is no good. Son-in-law got another enclosure and same problem, tries to go through the process of installing the drivers then comes with the message that it's not recognised and it can't be seen anywhere.
He said it must be the drive as putting his drive into the enclosures within seconds it's up and running showing the contents no problem.
The drive obviously thought I've had enough and gave up the ghost when hubby finished using the machine and I took it out, it was getting on a bit and it's done sterling work first for me then hubby when I gave the machine to him.
So until I can afford a new external hard drive for hubby's machine I'll have to see if I can share mine so he can backup his work, it's only his Document folder that needs saving as that's where the Excel docs get saved to.
Thanks for all the suggestions and I'm sorry it didn't work out this time.