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My original 1TB Seagate drive that was in my iMac failed, so I decided to do some upgrading. I bought a samsung SSD and a new Seagate 1TB hard drive and installed both via the OWC instructional video and the ifixit guide. My SSD is recognized perfectly and the iMac is running off a fresh install on the SSD and I love it! However I only got a 120GB SSD because I was planning on using the 1TB Seagate drive I bought for the storage. My problem is that my mac isn’t detecting the new Hard Drive, I have tried Disk Utility both from my desktop and from the recovery partition, I even tried detecting it under the windows Bootcamp. For whatever reason it won’t come up… Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be going on? Here is the replacement hard drive I bought: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/1tb-internal…
Talk with the vendor… that it doesn’t work in either Mac or WinDUHows to me says the drive is suspect. You might try the drive in an external case so you could see if other Macs or an actual WinDUHows machine can format it. If this answer is acceptable please remember to return and mark it.
