having trouble installing os on new hard drive

[yawnobelix]

So we replaced our 15 inch macbook pro with a 500 gb hard drive.
We first tried to install snow leopard with no success as it would just load a blue screen then restart. Then we tried to install the original software that came on the mac this loaded up to where we could install it but it did not see a hard drive to install onto. Any help would be much ppreciated

 

[EricNau]

Try booting from the install disk and running Disk Utility to reformat (i.e. erase) the drive, selecting "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" as the Format type.

 

[hyperpiper45]

Sounds like you are having this problem. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/729883/

Try the drive in a caddy in the usb to see if it works. Also you could roll back the firmware and then see if it installs.