is there any way to get passed an I/O error on a Laptop hard drive. i have a device that i can connect a Laptop hard drive to a usb cable when i plug it into my machine i can see it but when i go to go into it it comes up with I/O error.. is there any possible way i can get by this or is the hard drive shot. i realy need to get into the hard drive. also what causes this error. ??