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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.

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I will answer as soon as i find it. It is the last edition black macbook.

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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

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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.

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You've given a very generic ID of your machine, it covers 7 models and spans 3 years.

I suspect you put a "new" SATA III (6GB/s) drive on a SATA I box. Generally you can only drop back one rev expecting backward compatibility with a SATA connection. Since it doesn't find the drive you probably have done this since, AFAIK, all these machines use SATA I speed connectors.

Return the drive and get the proper one.

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I'm sorry thought i wrote it. It is the last edition of the black macbooks. 2,4 core 2 duo, and i think it came with 2GB of ram. I think it said that it supported up to 1.5gb (so that's SATA I ?), and i thought that SATA III is also backwards compatible.

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Your machine has a 1.5 GB/s SATA bus. This WD5000LPVX hard drive is SATA 6GB/s interface, backward compatible with SATA 3GB/s. I have not found any of the newer Western Digital Drives to be backward comparable to 1.5 GB/s. A lot of the Seagate drives are. I have had good luck with the new hi bred SSHD drives.

ST1000LM014

ST500LM000

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