Hello,
The HDD with the problem is a Toshiba HDD2D62 originally out of a Belinea o.book 1.1 running Windows Vista Basic but after the laptop burned out and now won't turn on I have an external SATA enclosure which I am trying to use to make use of this HDD on a Windows 7 Acer Aspire M3400 PC. However when plugged in via the USB lead the SATA enclosure is recognized but no drive. So I went onto disc management and it does recognize a drive but is down as Unknown and Not Initialized. So when I try to initialize the drive it first of all came up saying on the lines of this cannot be done due to an I/O Device Error. However after trying again several times it came up with the error The semaphore time out period has expired and after unplugging the drive and reinserting is back with the I/O Device Error.
The drive is not recognized in the BIOS.
The Enclosure is working as it works with a HDD out of another old laptop which is yet again Toshiba.
I have also tried putting it into another laptop as the only hard drive where it does not recognise the drive again but comes up No Operating System Found.
I was wondering if there is any tips or ways to fix this.