My hard drive passed away a little while ago, so I bought a new hard drive: a Hitachi Travelstar 500GB 5400RPM HD. I hooked it up as an external hard drive and used Disk Utility to format it and installed a clean Mac OS X.
When the drive is in an external enclosure and connected to the computer via USB, the computer boots up fine and Mac OS X loads up just dandy. However, when the drive is being accessed internally via the hard drive cable, the computer doesn't recognize it. I've tried holding Option on start-up. I doubt that it's the hard drive cable, because it seemed to working fine when the drive died. What are some other things that I can try?
Help would be much, much appreciated.
When the drive is in an external enclosure and connected to the computer via USB, the computer boots up fine and Mac OS X loads up just dandy. However, when the drive is being accessed internally via the hard drive cable, the computer doesn't recognize it. I've tried holding Option on start-up. I doubt that it's the hard drive cable, because it seemed to working fine when the drive died. What are some other things that I can try?
Help would be much, much appreciated.
