Hard drive freezes, can no longer be accessed. running off USB hard drive..

Here is a good one for you. My 15 month old MacBook suddenly froze and died while watching a movie (had seen the movie before). Hard drive would not mount anymore, so in order to run at all I had to reinstall Tiger on my 40 GB USB memory as a last resort. Running fine, mind you.
Guessed I was unlucky and got a poor Seagate hard drive (but I could hear it spinning inside), so I bought a new and larger hard drive, figured it was about time. After installing it and to my amazement my Mac wont find the new disk. I figured it was simply as I had not formatted the new drive yet, but the Disk Utility cannot find the new hard drive neither. When installing it seemed to mate perfectly with the internal connectors.
Any tips for a perplexed user, have you seen this behaviour before? How can I connect to the new or old hard drive and any test I can run to find out what is wrong?
Best Regards
Message was edited by: stenmark

Hello Stenmark,
There are three scenarios which could be producing the fault.
Scenario 1: Your original hard drive is faulty, and so is the new one (unlikely)
Scenario 2: Your Logic board is faulty (unlikely as you can boot externally)
Scenario 3: The internal Flex cable connecting the HD to the LOGIC BOARD or the connector itself (both connectors are on the same flex cable) has sustained damage when installing, or has faulted with the old hard drive (most likely)
To test, buy an firewire external hard drive case for your drive. You will need a SATA case and the firewire port provides enough power for a Sata drive to function without needing an external power source. Check the OLD + NEW sata HD's in this case to see whats faulty. If your new HD is working, then it comes down to scenario 3 and you need a new flex cable.
Refering to scenario 3, if the either of the connecters from the HD to the LOGIC were damaged before you installed the new one, then the original HD could be functional.
Hope that helps,
Matt.

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