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It depends on the OS you use ! On most versions of Windows, right click on the letter of the drive, then click "properties". In the new window, go to "Tools" tab, and click "Verify now". Check the the two repair boxes and run the program. (terms may vary according to version of Windows). Windows will ask you to reboot to launch the analysis of your disk. If this does not fix the problem, you'll need to further investigate with more elaborated tools, available free of charge on the net.

Hi Anon Try connecting your hard drive to another computer and running the windows disk tools to test your drive, make sure that the options to automatically fix errors are selected, if this does not work then a suite of hard drive tools from Acronis (disk director) or Paragon (Hard disk manager) may be able to fix your problem.

check data cable. change use port and check the driver on any other PC. if problem is same after doing so. check hard drive Cage. change driver Cage

Have you put the hdd from the laptop into slave mode, its on the back of the hdd, there might be a "jumper" that you need to reposition, failing that only insert the 1 hdd from the laptop and make it the only hdd, it should have an operating system on to run as normal. You can see the <jumper> on the right of this picture, you will need to connect both teminals (slave) with a little plastic jumper.