it probably has to do with the power supply.

you can mess around with it, or order up a new USB device, but the best solution to your problem is probably to put it in the laptop, put the old laptop drive into the ISB enclosure, boot to a LIVE CD (ultimate boot CD has a few different tools that will make the image of your old drive and put it on the new SDD drive.)

besides, the last step was going to be "install the SDD into the laptop" right? may as well do it first. (assuming the hard drive works in the USB enclosure)

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
here's what's on there:
Hard Disk Installation Tools
MaxBlast 5 (Maxtor) 5.0
DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate) 10.45.06
Disk Manager (Seagate) 9.56a
Disk Manager (Samsung) 10

Hard Disk Diagnostic Tools
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.09
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.90
SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor) 1.09
SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25
HUTIL (Samsung) 1.21/2.03
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 4.15/5.04c
Data Lifeguard (Western Digital) 11.2
SCSIMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 1.21
GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15/5.09
ESTest (ExcelStor) 4.20
Salvation HDD Scan and Repair 3.0 Demo version
MHDD32 4.6
ViVARD 0.4
HDAT2 4.52 For personal use only

Hard Disk Device Management Tools
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 2.05
AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00
MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1
UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003
SUTIL 1.01
ESFeat (ExcelStor) 2.10
ATA Password Tool 1.1
SMARTUDM 2.00
ATAINF 1.3m

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