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During hard drive upgrade after replacmen logic board would not recognize external HDi have 3 spare hdd s
ok.restarted several times with holding down opt key, c key ,s key..no resolved.USB hard drive,internal,does boot up with no issues What can i do to restore or mount the external hard driveThanks a Lot
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I'm going to try to help but your question is not very clear. It sounds like you can boot from a external USB drive.
Put the installation disk in and boot holding the "C" key down. Go to Utilities - Disk Utility. See if this sees the new internal hard drive. Give the new drive one partition and format it GUID. Then try installing the system.
What is the model of the drive you are trying to install? Is it a SATA?
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Yes it this SATA. And yes ,IT BOOTs from external HD.But Disk Utility cant see internal HD.It just one drive-DVD with OS X in it. Hard Drive is spinning,but seems to me not powered at full .Hard drive cable is good- i check with another 1211 unit.Does work.But i did ordered another one just macking sure.By the way a i have hdd cable from 1150 unit,i think they are same almost.Did not helped. Thanks a Lot for your respond and help
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When you were booted from the CD, could Disk Utilities see the new internal drive? Do you have any jumpers on the new drive? Are you booting from the internal CD or an external hard drive?
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When i Booted from cd with internal HDD only, Disk utility does not recognized and could not see internal hdd. restart with opt key down does same result-can see or cd only,or with out cd only blank gray screen with cursor on it.I am booting from internal hdd. Jumpers -not sure that i know how to use jumpers,or simply do not know about it.Do you know how to use it?( just macking sure that hdd board connector is clean ,i cleaned it up from any corrosion an films,and let it stay for 24 hours to dry up by air...let you know next day,Thanks
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What drive (the name and number) are you installing? Where did you get it?
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Good one !i tryed wd,seagate,toshiba,all 2,5. and 7200 rpm and 5400 rpm...but i have ssd intel brand-should i try ssd?
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Try using the old hard drive and see if it will work. Do not use any jumpers on the drives. Have any of these been formatted before?
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cant tell numbers now...
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Sorry, that did not translate into anything I can respond to.
I had this exact same issue. My MacBook Pro 13" just failed again.. here's a Youtube video I made.
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im having the same problem, can anyone help me what to make my hardisk recognize. The disk utility only show the OS X lion CD and if you try installing the lion,it goes up to the point of selecting the hardisk where again i cant see the hardisk....I tried to put my orginial Fujitsu 250 GB hardisk 5400 RPM and a Segate 500GB hardisk 7200RPM...however, i installed LION on 250GB harddisk and connected to another macbook using the sata usb cable and that macbook picked OS X Lion. Please help me out here...thanks!
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Hi ,i had same problem several times during repair-this is logic board fail-nothing u can do about but notrh bridge may not work correctly or connector is bad(missing pins)...without microskop, repairing ,resoldering,reboling ))logic board.... u can try get rid of DVD ROM and install hard drive internally as a second HD(sure with no first one)...that mean u will boot up from it,and will download some files and etc.Or use your Mac as minimac,imac but not laptop anymore.This is temporary solution b/c this hard drive would be not a primary...You are dealing with broken logic board,period.
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