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<blockquote data-quote="phishery" data-source="post: 1626425" data-attributes="member: 339387">I have been looking through the forum and I have come up stumped on the following problem I am having.&nbsp;I have what I believe is a 2011 iMAC (EMC 2308 is printed on the bottom of the stand). I recently received the S.M.A.R.T status that drive was failing and bought the exact same drive.&nbsp; I followed the iFixit instruction for swapping it out (taking precautions for static) and created a SD card with the Yosemite installer.&nbsp; After the HD install I was able to get the SD card to load the installer and ran Disk Utility to format the new drive but it wouldn't show up in the list of drives.&nbsp; I thought the cable may have gone bad so I put the old drive back in and booted to the installer SD card and that drive does show up (w/ it's failing status).&nbsp; The only thing I can think is that the drive is bad, but that doesn't seem likely.&nbsp; Are there any other thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="phishery, post: 1626425, member: 339387"] I have been looking through the forum and I have come up stumped on the following problem I am having. I have what I believe is a 2011 iMAC (EMC 2308 is printed on the bottom of the stand). I recently received the S.M.A.R.T status that drive was failing and bought the exact same drive. I followed the iFixit instruction for swapping it out (taking precautions for static) and created a SD card with the Yosemite installer. After the HD install I was able to get the SD card to load the installer and ran Disk Utility to format the new drive but it wouldn't show up in the list of drives. I thought the cable may have gone bad so I put the old drive back in and booted to the installer SD card and that drive does show up (w/ it's failing status). The only thing I can think is that the drive is bad, but that doesn't seem likely. Are there any other thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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