How to recognize a HHD?

ssal

Active Member
I had an original 250gb HHD from my old Toshiba laptop. I cloned it to another bigger drive and swapped them out. When I dismounted the original HHD, it was working fine.

Today, I want to make sure that the old drive is still functional. But when I connected it to my laptop via a SATA USB adapter, it doesn't come up in File Explorer, nor in DiskManager (it said Disk 1, Dynamic, Offline).

How do I make sure that the 250 is still working, without putting it back into the Toshiba trying to boot it up?

Thanks.
 
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