Hard Drive DOA?

[32VGT]

My MBpro 15" was running really crappy the past week or so. Long story short, powered it off then upon restart I got the Question Mark Folder. I installed another hard drive from another identicle MPpro 15" and it powered up fine and went directly to the OS.

Now, I just recieved the new hard drive and installed it just like the manual states and went to power the laptop on with the startup disk. I went to run disk utility and the new HD is not visible inside the window. Is this i sure fire sign the new HD is DOA, or am I just missing something? All of the tutorials I have found have stated the HD should be visible with a green arrow ready for partioning.

Any help appreciated.

FYI: The new HD is Western Digital 320GB 7200 RPM Black Scorpio or w/e they call it.

 

[Hellhammer]

Have you made sure that you have installed it correctly? I.e. that all cables are plugged in all the way.

 

[32VGT]

Yea, everything was connected and properly seated. I just want to know if there are some start up settings that I am missing or it should be able to read directly from Disk Utility.

 

[Hellhammer]

It should appear in Disk Utility. Sounds like it might be DOA, which isn't all that unlikely.

 

[Sasha-1]

My MBpro 15" was running really crappy the past week or so. Long story short, powered it off then upon restart I got the Question Mark Folder. I installed another hard drive from another identicle MPpro 15" and it powered up fine and went directly to the OS.

Now, I just recieved the new hard drive and installed it just like the manual states and went to power the laptop on with the startup disk. I went to run disk utility and the new HD is not visible inside the window. Is this i sure fire sign the new HD is DOA, or am I just missing something? All of the tutorials I have found have stated the HD should be visible with a green arrow ready for partioning.

Any help appreciated.

FYI: The new HD is Western Digital 320GB 7200 RPM Black Scorpio or w/e they call it.

Near the SATA connection there is a jumper block. Are any of the jumpers connected with a black jumper plug?

 

[32VGT]

It should appear in Disk Utility. Sounds like it might be DOA, which isn't all that unlikely.

Yea, sounds like it. Kind of sucks, i need my computer back!!!

Near the SATA connection there is a jumper block. Are any of the jumpers connected with a black jumper plug?

Nah, they are in the default position. I already got an RMA number on this thing so hopefully #2 nets me results i need.

-Thanks for the help.