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i have a laptop hdd which i suspect has issues because the laptop wont boot fully and nothing will open. i took it out and put it in my hdd dock on a comp with win 7 ultimate 64. the thing is that it says it has errors when i turn it on i skipped the fixing but it cant read it. also i ran crystaldisk info to get smart data but it cant read it eithier. i know its not the dock because any other hdd will work. i am wondering if win 8 does this to a disk or if its a hardware issue?

update:
i got bored with waiting for an answer and let it run the scandisk/checkdisk program. it read it after that and i put it back in the laptop and it works much better.

I was going to suggest running spinrite.

Be aware that you can never get SMART info from a drive connected via USB. USB hard drive interfaces don't support it.

its not usb its esata. also spinrite doesnt seem to work with hp 2000 notebooks, at least not this one. it says something about the drive being turned off but it is not. i can hear it spinning, and wont select the drive for operations.