New hard drive randomly disappears then trying to boot

Hi community,
So my old HD in MBP 13 (mid 10) 2.4Ghz failed, bought refurbished one from HandyGeek. After I replaced it, navigated to the disk utility in the recovery mode, and could not see the new HD. I unscrewed back again, unplugged HD, cleaned it, and plugged it again. And finally it appeared in disk utility, I thought it was just random thing. After I tried to install Yosemite through internet recovery, it crashed once before minutes were left until the completion. Forced shut the Mac, turned to the recovery mode, disk utility, and again the HD was not there.. Did the same thing, unplugged cable, plugged back in and repeated the installation process. It got stuck several times afterwards, but in different process. The second one was stuck, then MBP rebooted after installation, and got stuck on process bar, and 3-5 times got stuck on the Setting Up MAC after installation. Finally it worked and I got my new HD working. Left it on the table, did some geek bench to check the score, it was a bit lower, but never mind. I closed the lid, left for 2-3hours, came back, opened lid and the folder with question mark appeared. Tried to reboot, but got the same, went to recovery mode-disk utility and HD was not visible. Unscrewed, unplugged, plugged it in and it works now again.
What can be reason of it? I read that it might be the cable itself that is faulty and needs to be replaced, or there might be other issues?
Thank you for answers

Well i got most of my information off the old one, now I am trying to reinstall Tiger to the MacBook. Problem is I initially tried to do an archive install and the install kept failing after the second disc when it asked for the second install disc.
The people at the Apple store suggested that I try to do a wipe of the hard drive and install. Now when I put in the Disc 1 install disc and boot from the cd drive it just sits for a while and then ejects disc 1 and goes back to the place where the install failed from before ie: it keeps asking for the second install disc.
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