My Macbook pro doesn't see my hard drive while booting

Hello, Recently I have formated my hardrive and had few problem with installing lion, so I removed it install it like external drive from another computer then put it back inside and now it's not working, doesn't even spin, but I can boot from usb on that drive and the computer work.

Does the drive work on another computer?

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MacBook Pro doesn't see hard drive

My MacBook Pro doesn't see it's hard drive. It doesn't show up when I press the Option key or in Disk Utility on the Snow Leopard disc. It was working for a while and then the computer started freezing, mainly when I was using Xcode. I thought it was an OS problem originally. Then it would occasionally not see the hard drive and come up with the "?" folder. It steadily got worse until it reached where I am now, not working at all. It doesn't see my Windows XP partition either. I have reset the PRAM and NVRAM, but to no avail. The OS boots just fine when I put the hard drive in a different MacBook, so it's not the hard drive. I have taken great care of this computer, rarely taking it out of the house. I did buy it used with a backlight problem though, so I don't know exactly what the previous owner did. Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Boot from your install disc & run Repair Disk from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
Or if you have Diskwarrior or Techtool Pro use one of these utilities by booting directly from their cd.

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Verifying
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When I deleted the partition through boot camp, there was an error, but the boot camp partition seemed to have been deleted completely. I ran disk utility repair and single user mode command prompt /sbin/fsck -fy to make sure my disk was properly partitioned, but it still shows 399.42gb total storage in my "About This Mac".

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I just bought the new macbook pro with the 250 gig hard drive.. but without even transferring anything at all to my new mac from my old.. it already says it only has 178.1 gig's of hard drive space available.. is it seriously already using over 50 gig's of space just out of the box???

What did you figure out? I am having the same problem!
Have a 200GB HD
My System Profiler states:
Capacity=185.99GB which I understand BUT-
It also states Available=26.25GB
Then, when I go to the Activity Monitor it states:
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With a total of 124.99GB
WHERE IS THE MISSING 51GB of memory?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
What is the deal????
Anyone?

Airport extreme doesn't see my hard drive (free agent 500Gb)

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I have a 500 gig time capsule. I have used with a Macbook. The Macbook has a 500 gig hard drive which is about 3/4 full. Now we just purchased a new MacBook pro with a 1 TB hard drive. Do I need to buy a larger Time Capsule?

Do I need to buy a larger Time Capsule?
Probably yes. You might be able to get the full backup of the new MacBook Pro on the Time Capsule, but it will not be long before the Time Capsule is out of space.
Better to add a new Time Capsule and backup the new MacBook Pro to the new Time Capsule, and keep the old MacBook backing up to the old Time Capsule.
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Heading says it all. I'm baffled. Windows PC sees the memory stick but my MacBook Pro doesn't.
Plese help.
TJ

Mac's are very very particular about the Ram they use. Mac's historiclly only seem to like top of the line when it comes to Ram.
http://www.crucial.com
or
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I am going to get a macbook pro and i'm not sure whether to go for a normal 15 or 15 with retina, i would prefer the retina for what i need it for but this is pretty important

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Disc Utility doesn't see new hard drive

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I've just replaced my old 20gig IBM Travelstar 4200rpm with a new Seagate Momentus 7200.1 80gig hard drive. I used Carbon Copy to back a duplicate of the info on the Travelsdtar to an extrenal fireiwre drive. I can boot up from the fireiwre drive. When I go to format the new Seagate drive, disc utility doesn't see it. I even booted from a tiger install disc and tried it's disc utiltiy. Still couldn't see it. Before I go and reinsert the old Travelstar, maybe someone can tell me what I am doing wrong? thanks Andrew
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Hi Eww. You are exactly right. What was I thinking (not). I reopened the laptop and had a good poke around. The Seagate comes with a jumper diagram on the case. I was correct to assume that no jumpers means " master". Why I didn't see that last night only wine will know.
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jumpers in place or jumpers in a particular
arrangement, that any other drive with which you
replace it should be jumpered the same way. Jumper
configurations may vary considerably from one drive
model and manufacturer to another.
If you find that the drive is already correctly
jumpered (with no jumpers in place), then the problem
may be a poor connection .
Yes that was it. In my haste to get the thing going I only connected one row of the pins. Problem solved. It's purring along as I type. For the record it is much quieter than the Travelstar. Thanks for everybody's replies.
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Macbook Pro incorrectly 'sees' external vga mirrored monitor while booting

So I've experiencing some new behavior with my Core Duo Macbook Pro. The past few days it has boot up with no login window. The background is the 'normal' Leopard star scene. If I press 'apple-F7', I do get a screen switch that shows a login window in normal vga resolution.
Once I get in, the display system prefs automatically comes up and wants to adjust the resolution down further. I thought it odd that it thought there were two displays connected, the machine's LCD and an external VGA and it is trying to mirror the two. When I turn off mirroring, I lose all of the system preferences as it seems the non-existent VGA screen has the title bar. I then need to do a 'detect display' and it will correctly re-adjust back to the single display.
This first started when it came out of sleep mode a few days ago and is now booting up fairly consistently with this phantom external VGA monitor. I've even had System Profiler show two different displays (LCD and VGA) prior to redetecting displays.
My question is: Why is this computer seeing an external VGA display when I have NOTHING plugged into the DVI port? I've never plugged anything into it since my 'fresh' install of Leopard. I've had the machine into the Apple store for a failing microphone (which was not fixed yet because they wanted to send it in). During the Apple store visit, they did reset the PRAM.
I'm really perplexed and getting annoyed at window flipping/adjusting in order to get logged in.
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Stackhouse wrote:
Could a defective card cause the performance issues I had, but seemingly only when I have an external monitor connected?
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MacBook Pro doesn't see my iPhone to sync it

I've been using my iPhone 3GS (OS 4) to run the Nike+ app, and have been syncing it nearly daily to my MacBook Pro (OS 10.4.11) after my runs. A few days ago when I tried to sync, the computer didn't recognize the iPhone was connected. I purchased a new cable and was able to upload the stored data yesterday with it, but today I have the same problem with both the new & old cables: the computer doesn't see my iPhone as even connected. Both the cables work when I plug them in to recharge the phone. I don't think the problem is the cable -- does anyone have any ideas about what to try next?

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Macbook Pro doesn't see Airport Express

Hi,
I've been struggling with connection to my Airport Express.
My Macbook Pro (OS X 10.6.7 + all the latest updates) doesn't recognize it anymore. Occasionally, my wireless network was briefly visible to the Mac, but connecting to it only led to a time out. My Windows laptop from work did not have issues connecting, and neither did my iPhone...
I've done a reset of the AE, which did not help (my Windows laptop now shows the Apple Network XXXXX that is supposed to appear). However, the Airport Utility that is supposed to help me reinstall the thing from my Mac will not recognize it either...
Anyone any suggestions on where to go from here?

I am having the same problem. Right now i am sharing the wireless connection through the iPhone because my MBP2011 won't even see the SSID broadcasted by the airport express.
I hace tried emptying the keychain, emptying the list of known networks but nothing helps. It had the same kind of episode last week but after a lot of rebooting and editing of the AE over ethernet cable it started working again.
Tonight I came home from work, started the MBP and it wouldn't see the network. It has popped up once but clicking on it only resulted in a timeout error message.
Any help would be much appreciated! The AE is only a month old..
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My Macbook pro doesn't see my hard drive while booting

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