Will a new 320gb hard drive work on a mac book pro 3,1

purchased new 320GB hard drive for a mac book pro 3,1. Old HD has link speed of 1.5GB, new HD transfers at 3GB. New HD will not boot up. Can link speed be changed on mac book pro 3,1.

Have you already initialized/partitioned the new drive? If yes, you've installed the operating system on it, and it doesn't boot? You've tried a safe-mode boot (hold the shift key when booting)?

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Message Edited by Jadecarver on 06-13-2008 11:59 PM
Message Edited by Jadecarver on 06-18-2008 08:12 AM

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I would like to use itunes on my Mac but it only has 128 Gb, not enough storage for my iTunes library.
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