My macbook 2011 won't boot up please help!!!

Hi there
I hope someone can help me. I have a macbook 2011 and the other week it wouldn't boot up. It went into t a screen with the apple logo and a progress bar appeared. I waited ages but got stuck. I did some research and thought I would buy a new hard drive which I then replaced, all seemed well as it was back to its old self but now the issue has come back. I cant access the hardware test and was wondering if anyone had any ideas of what I can do or how I can access this some other way. I am not sure what could be causing the problem. i am running the macbook on the latest OSX. Any help would be amazing!

It could be the drive cable, and it might have been the drive cable all along. The following article has a list of symptoms describing drive and drive related problems:
Hard Drive Problems
If you could get an external drive with an OS installed on it you could boot from that and try and figure out what's going on. Be advised that Snow Leopard and earlier OSes may not recognize the internal drive's volume if it's Yosemite and they won't make sense of Core Storage because it didn't exist when they were released. Another option might be to boot off the install media if you have it and see what's up with the drive or if it's even visible.
The following articles about resets may help, but don't hold your breath:
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) - Apple Support
How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support
How to reset your Mac's NVRAM, PRAM, and SMC | Macworld
I rather doubt that will do it. If you have the install media I'd use it and see what's up before proceeding.

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