MacBook won´t detect internal hdd

[knutkk]

Hi,

I was surfing the web, and suddenly the wheel started spinning and my MacBook locked up. I tried rebooting, only to see a folder with a question mark on it. So I tried to boot from the DVD and use Disk Utility to repair my HDD. But Disk Utility didn´t detect my hdd. So I assumed that the drive was dead and bought another one and istalled it.
The new hdd was not recongized by my machine either. Then I took the old hdd and installed it in a external case which connects to the computer with USB and I managed to boot OS X from it.

Anyone knows how I can make my MacBook detect my internal SATA drive?

All help is appreciated

 

[u49aa2]

somebody i remember had similar problem to you. He/she renamed the HD to the original name (e.g. back to macintosh HD or whatever the name of your hard drive). i know it seem stupid and doesn't make sense, however it worked. Just try it.

 

[knutkk]

Tried it

I tried what you suggested, it didn´t work..

Any other ideas?