MacBook doesen't see WD internal HDD.

Hello! At first i'm sorry for my english.  So i tried to connect WD internal HardDisk to my MacBook Pro 2011 because i'm almost sure that this is something wrong with my original HDD. (Can't install osx). So before i'll buy a new one, i have to be sure that HDD is destroyed. So when i connected this HDD, mac doesn't see it, even in DiskUtility. HDD was connected to Windows PC - anybody know why mac can't see it? This is WD 1600js and it looks like that:
Please help me ;<.

Read this thread link After replacing HDD my Mac can' detect it for possible solutions.

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