New HDD Not Recognised

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I recently updated my iPhone (5) to iOS 8, and decided I might as well update my Macbook Pro to OS X Yosemite. After updating my MacBook for the first time, it started up just fine, but appeared a tad slower than usual. I figured it was due to a lack of applications I usually have running to monitor activity and help free up memory. After reinstalling all the applications I usually have installed on my laptop, it still feeled a tad slower, but nothing to be worried about. After a number of reboots over the course of three days, it suddenly refused to start up properly, showing me an error icon at startup, and shutting down later on.
After having googled around a bit, I read about the possibility of seeing what's wrong by enabling Verbose Mode. After having started up the laptop using Verbose Mode, I was shown the following error: "Error loading kernel cache (0x6)". After googling the error, I read that reinstalling the operating system was the only way to fix the problem. Seeing as I was unable to start up my laptop, I booted it up into recovery mode. As I bought the laptop with Lion preinstalled, it reverted the laptop to Lion, after which the laptop became unbareably slow. I then installed OS X Yosemite through the App Store, which unfortunately fixed neither of my issues.
Whenever I start up my laptop now, I am first presented with the error icon, which disappears after a while starting up normally. Then, when it is finally started up, I am once again presented with an operating that is terribly slow, and keeps freezing. Safari keeps freezing while loading simple web pages, regular applications take terribly long to start up, and every couple of minutes I am presented with "the spinning wheel of death".
After installing an application giving me more insight, I found out that the HDD was the cause of my problems. Thanks to "SMART Utility" I now know the error was an Interface CRC error. After googling for solutions, I ordered a new hard drive (750GB SATA III, Western Digital, 5400 RPM). When I received the hard drive, I installed it in my laptop, and booted into recovery mode. When I then went into Disk Utility (to prepare the drive), I was shown that the laptop didn't recognise the drive. Figuring that it was a malfunctioning hard drive, I ordered a new one from the company I ordered it from, and returned the first one. Friday my new drive arrived, which is giving the same problem; the hard drive is not being recognised by the laptop.
Considering the old hard drive does work (just not properly), I figured it's not the cable causing the new hard drive not to show up. Am I just having real bad luck (in other words, did I receive two broken hard drives), is there some step I'm missing while trying to set up my new hard drive, or is there something else wrong with my laptop?

JasperMacOSX wrote:
Considering the old hard drive does work (just not properly), I figured it's not the cable causing the new hard drive not to show up. Am I just having real bad luck (in other words, did I receive two broken hard drives), is there some step I'm missing while trying to set up my new hard drive, or is there something else wrong with my laptop?
The only time I recall this happening to me was when I didn't have the SATA connector totally seated into the drive.
When you boot into Internet Recovery (command+option+R) have you launched Terminal and tried the diskutil list command to see what comes back? If you see that your new drive is coming up as disk0 or disk1 or whatever, you could try the diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ "Macintosh HD" /dev/diskX command where X is 0-9.

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