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Replaced original HD with 500GB but it isn't recognized. Ideas?

I did a major overhaul of an old 17" Core Duo 1.83, where I replaced the Display, the Superdrive and installed a bigger 500GB hard disk. The hardest part with the display was when reattaching the front case - I had the hardest time getting the top corners to "click" into place, especially the top left one. Finally got it in after about 15 minutes of trying and retrying. Any hints for next time?

I booted from an external Firewire hard disk with Snow Leopard restored to it, which makes installing SL on Macs with a Firewire port a bit easier than with DVDs. Never failed in dozens of installs. But for some reason my hard disk isn't recognized by Disk Utility or by System Profile. I was pretty careful installing it. There are only the 2 cables connecting HD and logic board, right? Possible defective hard drive?

Just wanted to ask if anyone has any ideas, before I have to open the iMac up again. Thanks.

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If Disk Utilities will not see it, there's not much you can do. Open it up and see if possibly there's a jumper on the drive. If so pull the jumper. Next I would remove the drive and place it in the external enclosure, start up from my system installation disk and use Disk Utilities to format it and install a system. If you can't see it in the external, return it. To test if you got everything back together correctly, insert the old hard drive.

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Yeah, unfortunately it sounds like a bad disk. When I booted up from DVD this morning I could hear a click click click inside the iMac. Bummer. I just ordered a universal drive adapter so that I can test disks and burners before installing them in our Macs, so as to save time and hassles. Thanks for replying.

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I use the NewerTech universal adapter.

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