Do I need DiskWarrior?? Will it fix this problem?

Hello and thank you for reading.  I have had issues with my Macbook Pro ever since I swapped out both the ram and hard drive.  I thought at first it was a RAM problem but now have been able to boot my mac from the original hard drive, mounted in an external enclosure.  My new hard drive is still inside Mac.  When I run disk utilities, it can find the drive but it shows it as unmounted.  Selecting it and trying to mount the drive fails.  I am not sure what this means but would like to try to "start over" with this drive, if at all possible, meaning reformat and clone it again.  But since it cannot mount, I am at a loss at what to do.  I should say that the internal drive worked OK for 10 minutes or so after the install, but then my Mac crashed and has not worked right since then.
I've read that DiskWarrior might be something that can help fix this drive.  Shouldn't I be able to just reformat a drive and try again?  I would do that except that I cannot mount it.  Does this mean the new drive is toast or can it be fixed some way?
Thank you so much for your help.  I am traveling with my computer and need to get it up and running with an internal drive again.

Thomas A Reed wrote:
One thing that confuses me is that my Mac can see the drive, just not mount it.  Does this mean that it is connected Ok to mymac or do you still think that this is a connection issue.
I think it's more likely that the drive may be bad, but checking the connections is a cheap and easy (relatively) thing to try, and it could be the problem.  If reconnecting all the cables solves the problem, that's a much better solution than having to return or replace the drive and install another new one.
OK, if the disk is bad, I have a new problem.  I cloned my internal hard drive on to this new Seagate drive and was able to boot off it no problem, so I know that the clone worked well.  Shortly after installing the drive, then all the problems started.   Now I have this dead hard drive, with ALL my personal information on it.  I would like to return it to get my $175 back.  However, since I cannot reformat the drive or erase it in anyway, I am VERY hesitant to give it back.  What would you do in such a situation?  Sure, the disk appears to be dead, but I am such an amateur, that I might have missed a way to fix this.  I guess I have to eat the $175 loss for peace of mind.
What a terrible experience.  
Thank you for your help.

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