Hard drive format issues

So the 250GB hard drive in my MBP (OSX 10.7.something) blew up a few days ago, and I ordered a new 1TB Toshiba SATA drive to replace it. I was planning on using a Time Machine backup to restore my new drive, but I'm stuck on the formatting process.
Here's what I've done:
Installed new drive (correctly)
Launch Mac
Run Disk Utility
Select 1TB Drive
Click "Partition"
Select 1 Partition of 1TB
Options > GUID
Format > Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click Apply
Here's the problem:
Progress bar gets stuck at about halfway and says "Waiting for disks to reappear".
I waited several hours, but I was forced to abort the process.
Now it's claiming that my drive is only 137GB and still will not format (keeps getting stuck at "Waiting for disks to reappear").
I've been looking up solutions for the past day, but nothing is working. Is there a fix for this? I would have just used CarbonCopy, but my old drive died.

Either the drive is faulty, or it wasn't installed correctly, or you have some other hardware fault such as a damaged SATA ribbon cable.

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I have a late 2011 Macbook pro that started acting up a few weeks ago. Took it to an Apple store for a consultation and they came to the conclusion that part of my hard-drive not functioning properly. It just so happened to be the portion that had the bootup info on it (according to the tech). Rather than pay to have Apple install a new drive, I decided to go for it on my own as I've built more than a dozen PC's over the last 3 years, swapping out a hard drive is not a big deal to me. Even the tech at the store told me I shouldn't have any issues.
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Am I missing a step here or could there be something else wrong with my machine? Are there any other utilities built into the machine I could be running?
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Thank you for your suggestions.   It is definitely not a dirty disk, damaged disk, or the optical drive. If the optical drive or disk had anything to do with the issue at hand, a remote recovery from Apple's servers (Command +R) would have worked (failed several times - it connects to Apple's servers and downloads the recovery, but screen goes blue or grey the same as it does with the DVD, after the download completes and when recovery tries to initialize).
Like I said in my last post (that was edited by the mods, probably bc I linked the class action site). The issue here is a failed GPU on the Logic Card. Genius got it wrong here when I went to the store. If I felt like wasting any more of my time and money I'd take the scrapheap to the store and let them put in a new hard drive and pay their labor to then be told after the fact that I need a new logic board.
After reading the other thread (Macbook Pro (15" early 2011) horizontal lines on screen and not booting...?) - and reading ALL PAGES, I'm certain the hard drive was never the issue here. The thread I linked explains several others having the same symptoms my laptop started with (the screen jumping around and lines on the screen) before complete failure of the system. Several others in that thread have had the same problems trying to reformat as I am having. The symptoms and results are all the same. There is a class action lawsuit ongoing for this issue as there have been many hardware failures on these GPUs from this model year. The Hardware checks I'm running and the ones Genius ran simply didn't pick up on the issue. Others in that thread have even had replacements fail and the replacements only carry a 90 day warranty. At this point, it's a 3 year old machine that needs a new logic board, and a new battery, not a worthwhile investment of $300-$500 in my opinion.
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Hi there,
I've been stupid and I'm looking for some advice. What happened was I went and tried to install Windows 8.1 on my iMac, had a problem with the installation process and whilst in the Windows installer, I ended up screwing up a partition which has ended up as free space which OSX disk utility won't let me format, delete or repartition. It won't work either from within Mavericks or when booted from either a recovery disk or a USB drive Mavericks installer. I've got everything backed up so a complete hard drive format is fine, in fact I already tried that, so starting from scratch might be easiest. If anybody has any ideas how I could fix this I'd be grateful.
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It looks like the partition map of your iMac’s fusion drive is corrupted. Fortunately since you have a backup of everything, we don’t have to worry about data loss. Reformatting of a fusion drive does require some special steps though. See this article -
Mac mini (Late 2012), iMac (Late 2012 and later): About Fusion Drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5446
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Troubleshooting
The version of Disk Utility that comes with Fusion Drive is unique. Earlier versions of Disk Utility can't be used with a Fusion Drive.
If your system will not start because you see a flashing question mark or another alert:
Press the Power button and hold it down to power off your system.
Press the Power button again. After you hear the startup chime, press and hold Command-Option-R to start up to the Internet version of Mountain Lion Recovery.
A globe should appear with a "Starting Internet Recovery" message. It is now OK to release Command-Option-R.
A progress bar should appear and Internet Recovery should start and ask you to select a language.
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If your Fusion Drive can be fixed with Disk Utility, you'll see a Disk icon with red lettering. Click the disk icon.
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