How to move a hard drive from Toshiba to hp

[Sricker24]

My screen on my hp laptop broke so I moved the hard drive over to my old toshiba, with loss of data. I have replaced the screen and now want to move the hard drive back but am encountering errors. Someone please help.

 

[Computer LVR]

what is your specific model since the disassembly varies by laptop

 

[USAFRet]

My screen on my hp laptop broke so I moved the hard drive over to my old toshiba, with loss of data. I have replaced the screen and now want to move the hard drive back but am encountering errors. Someone please help.

Errors, such as what, specifically?

 

[Dogsnake]

Without some details as to the errors and such I can give a good guess as to what is going on. The HDD contains info. created by Windows as to the hardware configuration of the system. With your first move of the HDD the system tried to open and boot from the miss-matched HDD and in doing so altered it's original information (master boot record, hardware .inf's, etc.). This caused the data loss and left the drive in an altered state. The second move back did about the same thing. The system tried to use a boot drive that had been altered in the other system and corrupted from it's point of view. So now it is also my guess that you have a few options. One is to buy a new drive and do a clean-fresh install of the entire system. You may then be able to buy an external mount to plug the original drive into and then may be able to open it to retrieve files that you need (not software or programs but pics., music, documents, etc.). Another option is to format the original drive and do a clean install though this is saying goodby to everything that may be recoverable on the HDD. Before you go the reinstall paths you can try (https://www.piriform.com/recuva) or similar software to try to recover the data on the drive. Lastly you may be able to repair the drive with software but more specific info. as to what errors are occuring is needed.

 

[Sricker24]

So what shows up when I boot the laptop is a black screen with"missing operating system" in the top left corner I basically want to know if there's a way to wipe my hard drive, there's nothing important on it and I have all of the disks with its original content so nothing will really be lost. Is there a way to wipe it or do I need to buy a new hard drive?

 

[USAFRet]

So what shows up when I boot the laptop is a black screen with"missing operating system" in the top left corner I basically want to know if there's a way to wipe my hard drive, there's nothing important on it and I have all of the disks with its original content so nothing will really be lost. Is there a way to wipe it or do I need to buy a new hard drive?

Moving a drive between PC or laptops often results in complete failure.
The physical drive is fine, absent actual fail (unlikely).

Reinstall the OS, with the drive in the hardware where it will live.

 

[Sricker24]

And how would I do that?

 

[Sricker24]

Never mind I booted it using the disk and was able to factory reset the laptop thank you all for the help.