Samsung 840 evo ssd not recognized in macbook pro 2011

Hello Apple Support Forum,
I am trying to upgrade the hdd in macbook pro for ssd. I've formated the SSD in Mac format in another macbook air via USB, and installed the SSD in the main bay. However, after I booted using OS X mavericks usb drive, the OS X installer does not regonize the SSD. Can any one offer some adivce or suggestions? I am pretty sure that the disk is physically installed corrected in the mai bay.
Thanks!

biglizheng,
have you checked to see if your SSD is recognized by your MacBook Pro externally, via USB? If it’s accessible externally, then you could run the Mavericks installer to do a clean install onto the external SSD. It will be slow, since it will be limited by your USB port’s transfer rate, but it should get the task done. Once the external installation process has completed, you can hold down an Option key while restarting your MacBook Pro, and it should list the SSD as one of the drives from which you can boot. If you can boot from it and run Mavericks from it, then the problem could be with your internal SATA cable rather than with the SSD. (HDDs can be more forgiving of faulty SATA cables than SSDs are, which could explain why it didn’t affect your HDD.)

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