Samsung SSD 470 and Macbook Late 2007

Hi all,
today I wanted to replace the internal HDD of my white macbook 3,1 late 2007 with a Samsung SSD 470 series 64 GB.
Unfortunately, disk utility doesn't "see" the device, so I can't use it. I tried both booting from the Snow Leopard DVD and
the Lion USB-Stick, to no avail. The drive just doesn't show up in disk utility at all.
So I installed it in an external firewire enclosure and that was fine. I could install Lion on it, no problem, so I guess the
hardware is fine. Afterwards, I re-installed the drive on the internal SATA port, but the system can't find a boot device.
I also booted from a Win 7 DVD, but again, the drive doesn't show up as a possible destination for installation.
I checked the firmware revision of the SDD, and it's the latest that's available from the Samsung web page.
Any help here? I guess I'm at loss right now...
Thanks,
JDK

DID IT !!!
Salut Jochen !
It is working... but what a struggle.
The ingredients are :
- 2 computers including your macbook
- 1 standard hard drive (best have a new one or one with no OS ever installed on it)
- your SSD drive
- 1 DVD
- Superduper software
So the steps are :
- Make a "Lion clean install DVD" (good tutorials) on computer 1.
- Install the "standard hard drive" in your macbook
- Then clean install Lion via the brand new DVD.
- Now you have Lion on your Macbook... but you want it on a ssd.
- Put your SSD in a Hard drive case to make it an external drive.
- Plug it on your computer 1, format it (erase it)
- Now plug your macbook on computer 1 too and restart it by holding the T key (Target mode)
- On computer 1 you will have your SSD Drive and Macbook as 2 external drives mounted on the desk.
- Superduper or clone your Mackbook on your SSD.
- Open your Macbook and replace standard drive by SSD.
- Switch on your Macbook ! It works fine for me.
- The start is odd it is quite long before the Apple logo pops up but then after it is just sheer madness...
Well I hope you will be able to do it too. It took me hours.
The main problem is using a drive that had Lion on it because it won't let you clean install since Lion is implanting a Fantom partition that makes the whole ssd thing complicated. Hopefully I did'nt have to use Terminal tricks..it just worked fine.
Best regards,
Joffrey

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