![]() ![]() If they are indeed unformatted, how the heck am I supposed to format them when Disk Utility can't see them at all? I don't have an external drive available, but I suppose I can wrangle one with some shenanigans. Is it possible that these drives are shipped raw and totally unformatted (first was Seagate STBD1000100, SATA III, second is Western Digital WDBMYH0010BNC-NRSN, SATA II)? I was thinking that these drives just needed to be formatted, even though both indicated they were Mac compatible, which I presume means pre formatted in FAT so both Mac and PC could read them. So I got a new drive, same capacity, different brand and same result: I don't see the drive in Disk Utility at all, no matter how I boot. Bad drive right out of the box, yeah? Rare, but it happens. ![]() What's more, I repeated all of these steps on a different Macbook, and the results were the same there - drive not seen. Booting from Internet Recovery is the same. ![]() In DU, I can see the thumb drive, but I can't see the new hard drive at all. I popped the bottom case, discharged any static, undid the screws on the drive bracket, pulled the old drive and installed the new drive.Īfter putting the Macbook back together, I booted from a USB thumb drive and launched disk utility. I have a 13.3" mid-2012 2.5 GHz Macbook Pro and wanted to upgrade the internal HDD from the factory standard 500GB capacity to a 1TB. ![]()
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