new hard drive

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new hard drive

Hello,

My wife has a MacBook Pro. The hard drive crashed so I got a new one and installed it but when I start Disk Utility it does not see this new hard drive so i can partition it.

Her old hard drive is 250 GB and the new one is 1 TB.

Can a MacBook Pro not use a 1 TB drive ?

Both hard drives are Seagate Momentus

Thanks,

Kent

MacBook Pro

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 5:33 AM

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Csound1

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Jul 29, 2015 5:36 AM in response to Rocket_Mac

They can use any size drive as long as it fits in the bay and uses a SATA interface. Either the drive is faulty or the SATA cable has failed. Easiest way to check is to put the new drive in an external enclosure and test if it works there. If it does, replace the SATA cable.

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