MacBook doesn't recognize new internal hard disk
My hard disk died a week ago, so i bought a new one - a WD5000LPVX 500GB western digital blue drive. I put it in, turn the computer on, and ran snow leopard instalation from a USB drive, but the computer was not aware of the new hard disk. Tried opening disk utility, but still nothing. When my old drive was inside, the computer saw it, but it said that it had some kind of problems, and was pretty much dead.
I don't know what to do now. Any kind of help would be appreciated
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Please give us the last three figures of your serial number.
by mayer
I will answer as soon as i find it. It is the last edition black macbook.
by Novak
Look in the battery compartment. This was the last black MacBook: Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.4 13" (Black-08) Specs
Identifiers: Early 2008 - MB404LL/A - MacBook4,1 - A1181 - 2242
by mayer
The last three numbers are 0P2.
I fixed it in the meanwhile. The hard disk is compatible, but it wasn't recognized by the mac because (if i understood well) it wasn't formatted ("inizializzato" in italian). I went back to the place where i bought it, and they formatted it, but for a windows computer. When i plugged it back in the computer saw it, i formatted it mac-firendly using Disk Utility, and installed Snow Leopard. Works like a charm now.
by Novak