Hi, Yes. Unformatted drives will appear in Disk Utility. The hard drive was not installed properly despite what Geek Squad said. You may want to check system information app, to see if you see the controller in the SATA bus. It could be as simple as a loose connection, but fixing it will require opening up the Mac yet again.
Best, —k Faith doesn’t give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On Sep 10, 2014, at 1:24 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hmmm. I thought all drives showed up in Disk Utility formatted or not. That > way you can pick them and format them. > > CB > > On 9/10/14, 1:21 PM, jeff `greene wrote: >> Hi Chris no it doesn't show up in disc utility! Just like if you plug >> in an unformatted external drive. >> Thanks, Jeff >> >> >> On 9/10/14, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> Does it show up in Disk Utility? If it does you can give it a clean >>> formatting there. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> On 9/10/14, 11:17 AM, jeff `greene wrote: >>>> Hi, Ok i had a second hard drive installed in my MBP by the geeksquad. >>>> They said everything went well and the drive passed all their tests, >>>> but it doesn't show up in the finder or disc utility. I know when you >>>> plug in an external drive that's blank you'll get that "this drive >>>> needs to be initialized to be read" message. So, how can I initialize >>>> this new drive? >>>> Thanks, Jeff >>>> >>> -- >>> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
