Black screen flashing cursor

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1boaboi

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Hi im new here, firstly i dnt understand computer jargon so please put in simplest terms.
I have a dell inspiron 1545 laptop and it has black screen and flashing cursor when i turn it on, it wont boot atall ive tried everything on laptop but dont have recovery disk i made one from a dif comp but that wont work, i attached my hdd to home pc and now that does it so its def the hdd, please help anyway u can
 
What do you mean by this statement? I do not understand.

I attached my hdd to home pc and now that does it so its def the hdd.
 
I took the hdd out of my laptop, and i unattached the lead from my hdd in my pc and connected them to the hd from my laptop, (i swapped them over) it must be the hdd in my laptop thats broke because once it connected to my pc that has a blank screen with flashing cursor, i just need to no if theres a way to clean up the hdd to get it to work again
 
The hard drive is defective if it is performing how you said. Hopefully you had all the data that was important backed up from this hard drive. A defective hard drive cannot be repaired in most cases.

The solution is to buy another hard drive or buy another laptop.
 
You are lacking in relevant information.
If you hooked up your laptop hdd as the only drive on your desktop it will not boot.
Did you set it up as a secondary drive?
If so in some computers like my Dells you have to turn on the sata ports in bios to see the drive.

Edit: My bad. You said it was the only drive.
You need to set it as a secondary drive to see if you can still access the laptop drive.
Then we can go from there.
 
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Thankyou so much yes it was the only drive not good with computers how do i set it up as a secondary drive? And where do i connect it as i took leads off of pc hdd to connect the laptop hdd
 
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