SSD not recognized, unable to install

Hello all,

Firstly thanks to all the members here, I have learnt a lot from your collective knowledge, and wonder if anyone can help me with this problem.

I have a MBP mid 2009 ( 3.06 Ghz - 8GB Ram)

Through work I managed to obtain a Lenovo 256GB ( Toshiba ) SSD.

When i replace the current 500GB drive with the SSD and boot with
the snow leopard (10.6.3) disc, the drive is not recognized.

I go into disk utility and the only drive is the DVD drive.

I put the SSD in a pc laptop and booted with a Ubuntu Usb drive and it found the SSD first go..no issue..so the drive works...

Any ideas?

info on drive sticker is

Lenovo PN: 45N8206
Lenovo FRU : 45N8207
SOLID STATE DRIVE
THNS256GG8BAAA

You will have to format the drive in order for it to work on the Mac.

osxx said:

You will have to format the drive in order for it to work on the Mac.

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Ok so format it on a xp/win /ubuntu pc then put it in?

is there a particular format that should be applied? GUID? etc

Question 1 what type of disc is SL? A full retail install or system install from another machine? Partition using GUID option, even if only using one single partition. Then, if necessary, format Mac OS Extended (Journalled). You may have to format it on the PC using FAT 32, and then placing in the MBP and proceed from there.