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I have a Lenovo Ideapad 320 running Windows 10 and am using it to attempt to solve this issue.

I have a physically undamaged 2.5 inch HDD (ST1000LM024 5400RPM 1000GB), I took it out of a broken Lenovo G50-80 laptop, which went suddenly dead. I did set a password for it, in the BIOS. I'm beginning to suspect this might be the problem.

On the drive itself it says the input is 5 volts and 0.85 ampere (+0.5V 0.85A) but the enclosure requires 12V and 2A, which might apply to only 3,5 inch drives, and not apply to 2,5 inch drive, I don't know.

Sub question: If the BIOS password is the problem, would my only option be to try to repair the old laptop, or would sticking it in a similar laptop allow me to remove the password as well?

HDD-Specifications:
Samsung Spinpoint M8 ST1000LM024
1TB / 5400 RPM 8MB Cache / 2.5" SATA / 3.0Gb/s
Item Dimensions:    3.95 x 2.75 x 0.37 in
Item Weight:    3.77 ounces
Size:   1 TB

But when I stick it in an enclosure, so as to use it as an external hard drive, Windows doesn't show it in Windows Explorer. When I open the Windows Disk Management software {DISKMGMT.MSC: Disk 1, 931GB} (see pic), it is visible. It is also visible under {Control Panel >> All Control Panel Items >> Devices and Printers} (see pic) .

It's almost as if it is visible physically (on a hardware level), but not logically (on a software level). I saw some popup dialog boxes that asked to {initialize} (see pic) (is that formatting?) this drive. Of course I refused to do that, it contains a lot of data I need to keep, for work and personal stuff that has no backups.

Question: How do I make this drive visible again, so that I can use it as an external hard drive?

I checked, but no other question here was similar enough to my question. That could be all me, true.

Properties-Events

Information under Properties-Events tab:

 Device USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_ASMedia&Prod_AS2105&Rev_0\00000000000000000000&0 
    was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.
    Last Device Instance Id: USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_&Prod_USB_DISK_2.0&Rev_PMAP\070724BE0D3EF164&0
    Class Guid: {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
    Location Path: 
    Migration Rank: 0xF000FC000000F120
    Present: false
    Status: 0xC0000719

Properties-General tab

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Short answer: It was the password.

Long answer: I stuck the HDD in a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop, which is so old, it's HDD is still NTFS/MBR formatted. It asked me for the password (interestingly, when I typed it in, it didn't even show asterixes).

I typed that in and it did't give an error message, but it got stuck: it went to a black screen with a blinking cursor (underscore).

I repeated that, but the only option left was to go into the Dell's BIOS and change the password. Same result: no boot. I repeated but now I erased the password. I expected it to boot up, but it still froze on the black screen with a blinking cursor. I guess that's because it was a GPT formatting? I attached the HDD via a Maiwo K306 enclosure to the Ideapad, and ipso presto, that worked. Also works on the AS2105 enclosure.

(Before, to test my two enclosures, I tried to hook them up with the Dells HDD which didn't have a password, but which produced no joy whatsoever. At this point I thought I was going nuts, because it seemed that the HDD password was NOT problem)

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