Mac mini hard drive failure question.

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dipdog21

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I have an intel Mac mini whose hard drive (60GB) appears to have failed. It would not boot and could not find boot information so I used the disc utility and every time I tried to reinstall OS X it would fail. So I went and bought a 500 Gig Toshiba drive but when it comes up in the Disc Utility it shows up as a 3.6 TB drive. It fails when I try to do a Disk erase and format, and I can't seem to get it to work. Could it be something in the hardware of the mini has failed or might I have forgotten something while putting things back together. Any assistance is highly appreciated! Thanks
 
Did it have hynix RAM? The Intel minis had issues with hynix RAM. I've had a lot of those in for RAM replacements. Best thing to do is run Apple Hardware Test from your installers and loop it for a few runs to see if it flags any failures.
 
Where exactly is Apple Hardware Test? All I have access to is the original Installer disks. I do not see this under any of the utilities.
 
Still could be bad RAM. The only way to really rule it out completely is swap RAM. You should at least go through the machine and make sure the interconnect board is firmly seated to the logic board and make sure the HDD is seated firmly into the SATA connector.
 
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