Operative system not booting (spinning wheel on blue screen forever)

Hello,
I've replaced the standard hard drive of my (late 2009) MBP with a Seagate Momentus XT 750, this is an hybrid ssd hard drive.
Lately I've seen that the system started to slow down and spotlight started to rebuild its index.
After the indexing I've decided to reboot and I've got stuck with a spinning wheel on a blue screen at system startup time.
I've changed the hard disk and replaced it with the original one that still has the original installation and it works!
The weird thing is that if I connect the Seagate Momentus to an usb port using an adapter it also works! I can read all its files with no problem, so I tough the problem might be some damaged block in the part of the disk containing the operative system.
I've launched the Disk Utily app and I've tried to repair the disk and the permissions several times but it still doesn't boot the system.
Any idea?

Try a PRAM reset...
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