Tip: Unable to initialize and format new HD?

If you are having a **** of a time trying to get a new internal hard drive, to work on your Mac (Snow Leopard or Lion), this will help you with your problem.
So, you installed a new hard drive, but you cannot install Mac OS X on it? Or worse yet, your computer can't even see the new drive! Well, let me tell you, I tried absolutely everything to solve this problem. Disk utility cannot erase nor format the drive, I always got a POSIX error of "cannot allocate memory" or some type of input/output problem. So I went through terminal and tried to force things to work, via like 20 different approaches, using diskutil and fdisk and anything you can imagine.
I tried connecting via ethernet cable and firewire and using a working Mac to format the disk. I even connected it to a windows machine through firewire. I then tried fixing it through a network. Still no avail. So what finally worked?
I removed the hard drive and connected it directly to another machine using a special dock for hard drives. Finally, I was able to use another Mac laptop (with Lion too) to instantaneously format the disk. Took 15 seconds!
I put the disk back in my laptop and finally it recognizes it and tries to install the OS on it.
There is some kind of software bug that makes it impossible to communicate properly with the new drive. It is not a hardware issue, so don't go paying $$ for new parts. Apple, you need to seriously fix this bug. Not cool.

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