Ibook wont recognize new hard drive

I put in a new and bigger hard drive and combo drive into my G4 ibook. Combo seems to work fine, at least it is running the OSX dvd. But the new 100GB hard drive isn’t showing up in Disc Utility, so I can't format it. I took it apart again and checked all the connections. Still no good. I can feel the new HD spinning, so I know it is getting power. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately the sound still doesnt work....still mad about that but what can you do...
Have you tried resetting the PRAM? Since the speaker volume is stored in PRAM, resetting it may help.
Thanks for reminding us that you have to format a new hard drive.

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Laptop wont recognize new hard drive...

Hello, my name is Moises and i have a hp pavilion dv6000 and my hard drive just died. I looked up some information and purchased a Samsung hd500ji 2.5 500gb and for some reason it's not listed on bios. I ran Ultimate BOOT CD to see what some of the programs detect it and yes it shows up.
Any feedback would be appreciated.

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Hello, my name is Moises and i have a hp pavilion dv6000 and my hard drive just died. I looked up some information and purchased a Samsung hd500ji 2.5 500gb and for some reason it's not listed on bios. I ran Ultimate BOOT CD to see what some of the programs detect it and yes it shows up.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Hi,
This laptop is a bit old and the new hard drive is probably not supported by the BIOS. The biggest hard drive for a Dv6000 laptop is 200GB 4200rpm or 160GB 5400rpm. I suggest to buy a 160GB 5400rpm one and also some external storage for data. As you can see your old hard drive died so use the hard drive in the laptop for system only and keep important data somewhere else...
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G5 DP 2.0 wont recognize new hard drive

I just installed a new Western Digital 750GB SATA hard drive into my G5 DP2.0 tower and it wont recognize it at all. Ive checked and double checked the connections and I can verify that the drive is powering up but the system profiler wont even see it, and neither will disk utility or my Tiger installation DVD. Did I just get unlucky and get a bad drive or am I completely missing something here?
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Hi iGhost-
They don't make it too easy do they?
I found this regarding jumper settings: Western Digital Support.
A bit ambiguous but I am fairly certain you want that jumper enabled. In that drawing they call it OPT1
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Pavilion G7 wont recognize new hard drive

My old samsung 640 gig hard drive was failing in my G7laptop I bought in 2012. I bought a replacement 500 gig drive that was similar as the old one. After installing it and trying to run the HP supplied recovery discs it wont recognize the new drive. It starts to boot from the disc and then about 2 minutes later a a little window pops up that says no HDD installed and then shuts off. I boot into BIOS and try to run a HDD scan and it says no HDD installed. To troubleshoot to make sure the motherboard or SATA cable isn't bad I reinstalled my old HDD and was able to go into the HP UEFI and scan the old hard drive so that can't be the problem if it can recognize my old drive . I tried calling tech support and all I get is them trying to sell me a HP supplied drive which I don't need because in my technical mind there should be no difference in the drives. They are both SATA 3 and therefore compatible. Please help!

Thanks mbutler1981. Advance Format drives shouldn't be a problem for this computer, it is older one that you can run into issues with.
So basically you are trying to get the drive to be recognized by the BIOS. First verify the physical connections are solid, and in place.
The next thing to do when the new drive is connected is to perform a hard reset: Performing a Hard Reset or Forced Reset
If you are unable to see the drive in the BIOS, verify that you have the latest version of BIOS using this for guidance:
Update the BIOS. If it is lower than version F.26 then you can update it: HP Notebook System BIOS Update (AMD Processors) Version F.26
If you are still having problems with this drive in this computer, the problem is either the drive itself, or a compatibility issue. The manufacturer of the drive might be able to confirm the final diagnosis.
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So I formatted a brand new hard drive to MAC OS (Journal), I then could save on the hard drive. Not two days later Im back at square one, the program wont recognize the hard drive again.

So, hard to beleive, but I am having some trouble with Final Cut Pro X.
This last week I formatted a brand new hard drive to MAC OS (Journal),
so that I could save on that hard drive.
Well it went great.
I saved my project on there and copied a few others over as to free up space on my Laptop.
Then, not two days later Im back at square one,
the program wont recognize the hard drive.
It wont even open the events up off my hard drive,
as to jog the program into reqcognizing the scratch disk (which worked twice before).
What happened?
How do I get the program to re-recongize my newly formatted hard drive?
Please help!

The name of the drive, or the name of some folders inside the drive, may fool FCP X into believing it is a camera.
Also, you should not use the drive for time machine backups.

Wont recognize internal Hard Drive

About a month ago, I ran CleanSweep on my wife's Powerbook G4. Big mistake! I started having all sorts of problems that hadn't occurred before that. I had to format the drive and reinstall Mac OSX Leopard. Last week we setup the Powersaving settings for the computer to stay awake because in the middle of watching movies on our Apple TV, the computer would go to sleep and the movie would stop playing. The next day I woke the screen from sleeping, but the screensaver was frozen. I had to do a hard reset (hold down the power button). When I tried to startup the computer, the startup disc was not found. I booted from the CD, but didnt think to fix permissions, or verify disk. I decided to restore her from Timemachine. We had an appointment to go to, so I left the restore running. When we got back I noticed that the restore froze at 36.9gb. I had to do another hard reset. I then decided that it needed a clean reformat, and complete Leopard install. I had to go to work so I left the install running. When I got home I noticed that the computer was asleep. I thought the install was complete. It wasn't! I couldn't wake the computer up, so I had to do another hard reset. Now its the weekend, and I can devote full attention to the install, but the computer wont bootup from the Leopard CD. It dosent recognize its own hard drive, so during the bootup the apple appears, then a caution sign (circle with a line in the middle) I just sits there after that with the gear turning under the caution sign.
Here are some things that I know its not.
Crashed Hard drive - My MacBook Pro recognizes the harddrive when I firewire over to the Powerbook via the disk utility , It can even format it and write to it.
PMU Reset - Tried that
Bad Leopard Disc - Ran the Disc on my PowerBook when it was Firewired to my MacBook Pro.
Optical drive on the Powerbook - The Macbook Pro can boot from the Leopard CD when it is in the Powerbook, and firewired over.
Hard Drive Cable - Same as first issue. The MacBook recognizes the Hard Drive so, if the cable was damaged, this would not be the case.
Has anyone experienced this, and can anyone help?

Oh, I also formated the hard drive from my MBP. I wrote 0's on the entire drive. I don't mind doing any formating because I have a TimeMachine backup.

Disk Utility won't recognize new hard drive

Hello,
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
The original hard drive (80 GB) went bad, so I replaced with a new 160 GB Western Digital one. I formatted the hard drive using Disk Utility from the Mac OS X Disk. It worked the first time I booted into Leopard (I just booted up to make sure the OS loaded...didn't install any new software and/or hardware).
Then I shut it down and started it back up, and the computer didn't recognize the hard drive. I inserted the Mac OS X disk and ran Disk Utility, but the hard drive was not recognized.
So now I'm thinking the new hard drive was also bad. So, I ordered another one (Seagate 160 GB) and it to was not recognized when I ran Disk Utility from the Mac OS X disk.
When replacing all of them, I followed directions I found here and other websites. They all said to do it the same way, so I'm assuming the directions for replacing a hard drive in a laptop were correct.
I searched Google and found several posts suggesting using an application called Disk Warrior, but from my understanding, you cannot run it from a disk, it needs to be installed, which is obviously impossible since the hard drive isn't recognized.
Then I ran Open Firmware and did "devalias" from the prompt. From what I can tell in the list of hardware, the hard drive is recognized, but I am not sure. I took a picture of the screen printout but do not see an option to attached it to this post. Therefore, I'll just tell what it said for now and will create an image hosting account so I can add a URL for it later.
In the list, "hd" is in the left column and in the right column of the same line is "/pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0" (without quotes).
If anybody has any suggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
I've replaced a few hard drives, and in instances where it's not recognized, it's either been a cable connection issue or I've seen others with a jumper issue. Either the hard drive to logic board cable isn't properly set, typically on the logic board side, or a jumper was left on the drive, where typically you can just remove it. I haven't personally had the cable fail, however, that's possible too.
When you pulled the large plug from the back of the original hard drive, did you do it very carefully? It's not like a desktop hard drive plug that you can just pull out ... it needs to be wiggled out, gently. I have a hard time believing two new drives would be essentially DOA, although the first one worked for a bit, which leads me to wonder about the physical connections.
Since you have your original OS X disks, you could try running the Apple hardware test to see if it gives you any error message(s).

IMac 400dv will not recognize new hard drive installed

Hi,
I had been having trouble with my iMac 400dv's hard drive. I had posted the problems I was having and had gotten some very nice feedback. The final decision was to install a new hard drive and battery.
I purchased a refurbished 40GB Maxtor to replace my old 20GB. Installation was no problem except that my iMac will not recognize the new drive. If I reinstall the old one, it recognizes it right away, so I know it has been installed correctly.
I took the new hard drive back to the store and the tech said that it wasn't set on the "Master" position. He set it and tested the drive and said that it was fine. I reinstalled and get the same result, no drive can be sellected to install the software. No matter where I set the pin, I get the same result. I called the phone help line (MicroCenter) and the new tech told me that the drive was too big for my mac, which makes no sense to me since they suggested I buy a 100GB in the 1st place.
I have 1GB of memory, my installation disk if for 8.6 and I will bring it up to 9.2 if I can get it running again.
Any suggestions?
thanks,
Lucy

Lucy Rust...
In my opinion no Macintosh user should attempt to install a refurbished HD under any condition. Especially any HD that is to be bootable as they are no longer reliable for the Mac.
Master setting is a must for the HD and never tinker with an optical setting. Well, if you could mess with the optical setting, expect to do some micro-surgery.
You should be good for a HD up to a capacity of 120GB. The threshold is somewhere around 137GB but you will not find such odd capacity on the market.
I think the rest has been covered.
...Ron

DV8000 Hard drive issue - wont recognize the hard drives

This is my first post so please let me know if I do anything wrong!
Ok so the other day I was working on my dv8000 when it just powered down. I turned it back on and instead of booting properly it told me that it could not find the operating system. Knowing that the machine had two drives in it, I swapped the primary with the secondary and still got the same result. I then went out and bought an external drive bay and attached the primary hard drive to my desktop. The drive was bad and kept cycling the heads. I have now bought a brand new hard drive and the laptop is currently configued with the new drive in the primary slot and the other original hard dirve that I checked and is good in the second slot. Here is my problem - when I go into the bios the computer recognizes the two hard drives for boot options but when I try to load XP from a cd to the laptop, it tells me that there are no hard drives installed... what am I missing? I have checked the drive for errors via the bios and the test come back passed. I thought about formating the drives but the the bios does not have a format feature in it that I can tell. for all intense and purposes, the bios sees the drives but the operating system does not. Any ideas>
Please help as this is my business machine and I cant keep borrowing my wifes laptop, she thinks I am gonna break that one too!
Thank you.
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That did it! I had to turn off the Native Sata Drive support in the Bios! now the machine is up and running. HP has told me that I need to purchase a replacement drive from them as the replacement drive that I bought from my local store does not have the HP restore partition on it. I can still access the original drive and I do see that it does still have the HP restore partition on it. is there a way to just create a partition on the new drive and copy the files across?
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HP Recovery Manager won't recognize new hard drive

Hello,
I have a HP Pavilion TouchSmart 14-b173cl Sleekbook. I purchased a new hard drive and I have ordered a usb recovery kit from HP.
Howevery, when I try to run the recovery manager, it gives the message no hdd.
Also, if I try and do a hard drive check, it says not installed. It does not detect the hdd. However, if I put back the original hdd and run the recovery manager, it does recognized it and allows to start the recovery process.
Can anyone help me with this issue? Why does the laptop does not recognize the new hard drive?
Thanks!!!

Hi there
So nothing of my suggestions really did bring any improvement for you I suppose: (
These are the last suggestions I have -
Update BIOS and chipset from your product download site & try putting new HDD again.
Bios:
Updating BIOS:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c00042629
Latest version (Windows 8, Intel processor):
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-135598-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en...
Intel chipset:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-112630-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en...
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Windows XP Pro doesn't recognize new hard drive on T61 thnkpad

Hard drive: 160GB 7200 RPM SATA
                    The Lenovo part number for the new hard drive on my invoice is: 41N5737
                    However, the sticker on the hard drive itself has this Lenovo part number: 42T1057
                    It is made by Hitachi.
Thinkpad: T61 (8891-CTO)
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 (newly purchased, shrink-wrapped)
This thinkpad had Vista Home on it. I bought the new hard drive for the purpose of loading a just-purchased copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 on it (. After installing the new hard drive:
1. I turned on the machne and inserted the Windows XP CD.
2. Files from the CD (drivers, etc.) started being loaded (into memory, I guess).
3. Then got a prompt to select whether I'd like to install a new version of XP or restore an existing version.
4. I selected Install a new version.
5. Then I got a message saying Windows could not find a hard drive on my machine.
6. Then I restarted, and interrupted the restart to look at the BIOS config settings
7. I found the hard drive test function, and started the hard drive test.
8. It took a while, but the hard drive test was successful. So hard drive is OK, and the BIOS is aware of it.
How can I make Windows XP aware of my new hard drive?
Thanks for any help....
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Tdc3, welcome to the forum,
change the BIOS settings in Config > SATA to Compatibility Mode from AHCI.
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Old hard drive broke, Macbook will not recognize new hard drive

Hi,
My Macbook wouldn't boot, hard drive was making an odd sound, only would go to the gray/blue screen with the flashing ? folder. I bought a new hard drive and installed it, used Leopard DVD to boot, went to Disk Utility and the only thing that showed up was the DVD. I tried re-seating the drive and still nothing.
Any Suggestions?

Hey hauebj01 and welcome to the forum -
I know it's a hassle but I've heard of some folks having quite a bit of trouble seating replacement drives. You might try that again. Sometimes you have to push harder than you think you should. Make sure that nothing is obstructing the connection.
Also, the drive may be bad. If you have an external enclosure, you can see if you get the same result with it in there.
By the way, which HDD did you purchase?
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'NEW" G4 WONT RECOGNIZE ADDED HARD DRIVES

Just got a new Mac and trying to transfer data from the old hard drives to the new machine.
My new G4 isnt recognizing the old disks when I hook them Up in the vacant bays. I have the jumper pins configured correctly, I am using the available connectors and power modules, but if I hook up any otehr drives than the start up disk, the machine wont even pwoer up. Tried reset button, changing disk positions, etc. Why isnt the computer starting when I add additional drives to the hardware cables?

This may help. Power Macintosh G3 and G4: IDE Master and Slave Support and Configuration
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24342
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Macbook won't recognize new hard drive tried a lot of things and need ideas

My MacBook rececently froze up and when i shut it down it just loaded with a folder question mark. I went through a lot of different discussions, and came on the conclusion my hard drive died! I bought a new one on ebay and i put it in myself. I tried loading software on it but it would not show my hard drive being there. I tried the PR+AppleOption but it still didn't show. I then went to disk utility and notice that the hard drive appeared there, but it wouldn't let me do anything with it. My warrenty is up and i was hoping i wouldn't have to take it in to the apple store, but i will at the end of the week if needed!

New drives need to be prepped before use:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

LR 4 wont recognize 2nd hard drive in the source during import??

I run 2 hard drives in my PC. One drive is for programs only. The second and larger is for photos/music. When I go to import the source pane ont he left will not recognize the B: drive, Only the C: drive and it will even recognize my M: drive with is my external. Im not sure what to do at this point to add the B: drive to the souce. Thank you

Sometimes it helps if you put one "dummy" picture on a drive via Win Explorer. So, try this first and see if your drive shows up.
If this doesn't help:
Letter B is not a good choice for a drive on a PC. This is because of ol-old times when drive letters A and B were reserved for the 6.25" disk (A) and floppy drive (B).
That's why the first drive in today's PCs is still named (lettered) C.
And, I don't know maybe Lr does not recognize drive letters A and B. So rename your drive B to drive D.
You do this in Windows Control Panel >System and Security >Administrative Tools >Computer managaement >Disk Management. In the lower window where it shows your drives, highlight the drive in question then go >Action >All Tasks >Change Drive Letter and Path.
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