Cannot see newly installed harddrive in iMac
Installed new harddrive per iFixit. iMac starts up with installer (file on USB thumb drive) but cannot see new disk. Disk repair does not see new disk to format it.
Suggested path to run down other than complete tear apart again?
Any software tricks to find harddrive or suggested places to start looking when tearing iMac back apart?
Normal startup chime and boots into installer when USB thumb drive used - just can't see new drive
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Can you give us the drives make and model you are trying to install that would be a great help in figuring out how to fix this.
door Dan
WD2500AAJS; 250GB 7200RPM 3.5" SATA hdd
SN(s): WMAT12898752;
I suspect that the iMac may have come originally with a 500GB and won't cotton to a smaller drive? Is that a possibility?
door drgordon
The only size requirement of a boot drive is that it be large enough to contain the OS and some extra free space for VMEM (swap) files. You can boot these from a DVD (4-8GB) as you know, even a USB drive. More than likely it is a connector/cable fault. Go over your reassembly once more paying close attention to your connectors (connections).
door originalmachead
By the numbers this drive should work. Your systems SATA port is SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) and this drive is likewise SATA II. While I would have put in a larger drive this is still plenty large enough to install the OS on.
door Dan