Need to test a hard drive

I have a computer (DELL inspiron 530s) that recently has been saying hard disk drive failure when I try to start it up. it gives me the option to press F1 to continue or press F2 for setup. when i press F1 to continue a black screen will eventually pop up and say
No boot device available press ENTER key to retry
SATA-0: Installed
SATA-1: Installed
SATA-4: None
SATA-5: None
so what i was wondering is if i might be able to take the hard drive from the inspiron and hook it up to my Toshiba a215 or my Dell latitude d610 or HP 530, or vice versa, taking one of the laptop hard drives and hooking it to the inspiron to see if it will work with a different hard drive.
i have been trying to figure this out for days now. if any body could help me i would greatly appreciate it. i just really want to know if its the hard drive that is failing or some thing else. the PC was working just fine. i havent had it long though. someone gave it to me. when they gave it to me it had a bad PSU. i replaced the PSU and then i did a full pc restore back to factory settings.  after hours of updates it worked fine for a few days. Then one day my wife tried to turn it on and it didnt want to boot up. the PC kept showing the screen that i explained previously. she said it eventually did boot up somehow.
i dont know what the deal is. please help
 Thanks in advance
Aaron

I have mixed feelings about what to answer. Putting a drive into a different computer and trying to boot from it will definitely cause all sorts of problems. Normally I would say pretty strongly to avoid doing that. On the other hand, if Windows gives you problems, that's still a lot further into the boot process than you're getting currently and would tell you that the drive's at least working.
I've never used one for this purpose, but there might be a bootable USB stick that can scan your hard drive for errors.
- Peter

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