New HDD formatted externally but reverts when installed in MacBook Pro

Hello! I apologize if this is really long. I'm hoping someone can help me out!
My MacBook Pro recently crashed. I woke it from sleep one evening and was greeted with a flashing folder & question mark. I ended up using this as an excuse to upgrade from the original 500gb HDD and purchased a new 1TB Seagate HDD (Model : STBD1000100 ) I installed the new HDD and booted from the Internet Recovery system. From there I entered Disc Utility and tried to format the HDD. No luck. When I would try to partition it how I was supposed to, it gives me an error saying it cannot create a partition or even erase the drive. After searching this site, I found a tutorial on how to do it external. I put the new HDD into a case and plugged it in via USB. From here I was able to format the HDD and even install OSX Lion (this is what my Mac came with.). After formatting and installing the operating system, I reinstalled the HDD into my Mac. I plugged in the external HDD I have been using since the crash & opened up start up disk. When the options came up, the new HDD wasn't there! I went into Disk Utility again to make sure it was at least recognizing the HDD. DU showed the hard drive but when I clicked on it, it said the drive was unformatted and the partition I had made previously was now renamed and grayed out. I can't modify it in anyway.
Am I doing something wrong? Can someone give me the steps on how to properly do this if I am doing it wrong? Or, could it be my SATA cable?
Thanks for reading!
Macbook Pro-> Mid 2012
Error Message Given in Disk Utility -> "Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed."

If you take the new 1 TB HDD out and connect it to the MBP via USB, will it boot the MBP? If so the internal SATA cable is in all probability the offender. First try the poor man's approach:
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2011/20110415_1_Tinfoilfix--howto.html
If no success, then a new SATA cable will probably be required, An Apple store genius bar appointment will confirm this.
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