New 2.5 Hard Drive in External Housing not working

Hi,
I bought a brand new 2.5 SATA drive, and place in a usb housing. Disk Utility Does not recognise the disk. Do I need to put it inside the macbook first to format it, or should disk utility recognise it when plugged in via USB? Thanks

It should recognize it right away.
All drives come with FAT32 format, recognized by Mac and PC. If you reformat, depending on the settings, you may be able to use it only with Mac or only with PC. I have done that and works fine.
Before you go thru all the trouble formating can you check few things?
Can you try to plug it in any other Mac or PC? Do you see any lights on? If you see the light it is connected, and if it works with other computer, then your mac may have a problem.
Also, if you have Parallels or Fusion installed, try to exit and than plug your drive.
Last thing I can think of, try to shut down your Mac, unplug power cord, remove battery, open Mac and press and hold power button for 10 sec. Than put it all together and try using your drive.
Sometimes it just needs little reset.
that's all I got.

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