The shipped HDD doesn't work anywhere else!

Hi everyone,
I have HP ProBook 4520s, it's shipped with hdd of model: ST9500420AS (Seagate Momentus 500GB 7200.4 RPM).
Now, I replaced it with another hdd (doesn't matter what it is), and I wanted to mount the old one (mentioned above) in an enlosure... but, it doesn't work properly (actually, doesn't work !) only the "installing new hardware" icon appears and takes a while to complete and then no partitions are loaded into the computer.
Checking the computer management shows that the hdd is connected but appears as RAW disk with no partitions in it, and asks me to "Initialize" the hdd, when order to initialize as MBR, an I/O error returns:
"The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
re-mount it in the laptop directly, it works with no problems.
By the way, The enlosure works with the other hdd with no problem.
I mounted the momentus ST9500420AS hdd in a desktop pc, the same problem appear (like when mounted in the enclosure).
I googled for some solutions, at last, I may say that this hdd is locked for the laptop and can't work in other devices without doing something to it!
Please, anyone knows what to do tell me the way I should take to solve this problem, it's 500 gb hdd and I don't want to loss it
Thank you in advance.

Thanks Mike, have already tried that weeks ago, even got a whole new router, nothing seems to do the trick. Besides, every other computer works just fine with both old or new router... I just erased the entire macbook and reloaded the OS from scratch, perhaps something had been corrupted. It still won't pick up signal unless standing a few feet from router, but it will maintain the signal a bit better once it's picking it up. It's still not right, however...used to work just fine.

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