MacBook can't boot from HDD

Hello friends!
Please help me with my macbook late 2009.
I was a problem with SMC conntroller and take mac to service. After one week i took it and all looks good, working for few days without any issues. Today, after 2 hours of use my mac is hung and i use hard reset to reboot it. After reboot, gray screen appears without any action. I tried to reboot it again and again and after 5-10 attempts I see all my disk partitions with recovery mode and tried to start DISK UTILITY to test hdd. Disk utility also hung on scanning disks. I have no luck to tried start it again - always gray screen, question folder or O with /. I tested old hdd with other mac and it's worked fine, I tried to use another, new 1Tb WD HDD 2.5 - connected it and try to power on with recovery flash drive. Mac started without issues and I can boot from flash drive, started disk utility but mac can't find new HDD at all. Please note - I use a lot of methods, tried to reset SMC / PRAM/VRAM without luck. Safe mode also not helped, verbose mode show me "Still waiting root device" error for old HDD, but sometimes mac show all my old disk partitions - after I chose Macintosh HD - I see O with / and that's all.
Please help me to figure out issue. I think this not a HW issue... but why mac not show new HDD? Really very strange problem, all day with tests w/o luck..SMC controller looks to be working fine - mac starts, charge battery, cooler speed is managed by motherboard fine.
May be new HDD is incompatible?
Old HDD -
Looking forward for your suggestions.

Looks like this is hdd flex cable issue... I just move it when mac starts and partition select menu appears instead of grey screen or question mark. When I select partition (recovery or macintosh hd) after 20-30 seconds I see O w /.
Can anyone confirm that this might be? I will order new flex so this should be solution or not? I read a lot of google links and see that this is often problem for 2009-2010 macs.
Still waiting your advices
Apple should improve these type of cables as this not reliable as I think.

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