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tooth63

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My daughter has a 13 Macbook I'm trying to upgrade the HD. I have cloned to original HD. But the computer wont see the new drive. I can boot from it in an external enclosure but when i put it in the laptop it doesn't see it. I have tried a WD and Seagate neither worked. I upgraded my sons and it worked without any issues. I'm stumped. I need to get this fixed so i can get my Mackbook Pro back from her. Thank
MacBook2,1
OS X 10.4.11
 
How did you clone it? What did you use to clone it and restore the image back to the drive? Was the original drive from out of that machine? When you hold the option key and start up, do you see that drive as a boot volume?
 
I used Carbon Copy cloner. I have cloned it both ways block copy and file copy and neither worked. I do not see the drive holding down the option key. It boots fine in my usb device but will not see it inside the computer. I try using the OS disk but it doesn't see the drive to install.
Something else that's interesting. I took it apart to see if the contacts were bad. One pin had a little corrosion, I cleaned it with contact cleaner hooked up the new drive while it was still apart and booted. I got the Apple logo and it started to boot. Put it back together and now it doesn't see again. I'm lost
 
I'm thinking it has to be a hardware issue. But it doesn't make sense that the original disk works but none of the others will. My son has the white one i upgraded it with no problems.
 
Something must have went wrong in the cloning process. Since you have an external enclosure to work with I'd boot to the install DVD and go to utilities/disk utility, the click on either drive then select the restore tab. Select (drag and drop) the original drive as the source and the replacement drive as the destination. Make sure erase destination is checked then click the restore button. It will take a while and then once the progress bar is gone and if you did not receive any I/O errors, that will mean it should have restored successfully. Then take the new drive and pop it into the macbook and see if it boots then.
 
Didn't work. I have installed OS 10.5.8 on one of the new disk and transferred all the files to it. Now i just hope when i put it in the computer it works.
 
Yea it is. When its in the computer it doesn't even recognize its there. I can't use disk utility or any thing because it doesn't show up. I'm about to give up. There isn't anything special about the drives that come with the Macbook is there? I've replaced drive in my Macbook pro and my sons Macbook and never had a problem.
 
tooth63 said:
There isn't anything special about the drives that come with the Macbook is there? I've replaced drive in my Macbook pro and my sons Macbook and never had a problem.
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Should just be about any SATA 2.5" drive. I'd be curious about what kind of drive it is because I've replaced hundreds of different brands of drives in macbooks and never seen an issue. I still think it is something fairly simple but I can't see the machine.
 
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