[madeinguam]

I have a 1.83 Core Duo MacBook Pro with 80GB hard drive and I'm trying to upgrade to a Hitachi 250GB. I inserted the new drive into an enclosure and connected, via USB 2.0, to my laptop. The enclosure lights up and you can hear the new disk spin, so I think everything is going fine. When plugged in, an error message comes up with a few options:

"Disk Insertion - The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." The three options are INITIALIZE, IGNORE, AND EJECT.

After some searching on Google, I figured that I just have to either repair or fix the new drive with Disk Utility. I open up Disk Utility and the new disk is shown as a disk source. "Repair Disk" isn't an option because I can't select the button so I go to erase the new drive. I select the "Erase" tab and it's asking me which "Volume Format" and "Name." I did some more searching via Google and all I seem to find are answers for just external hard drives, not new hard drives that will eventually be installed internally.

This is where I get stuck.

Once the new drive is properly mounted, I plan on cloning my current hard drive with Super Duper and installing the new drive. I take it this is all that needs to be done, right? Any help/tips are greatly appreciated. I've never done this before.

Thank you very much in advance.

[albloom]

Most hard drives come out of the box unformatted or formatted in
a way that Macs can't use. You need to format (initialize, erase)
the drive. Use Disk Utility.

Volume format should be Macintosh OS Extended.
Name is whatever you like.

A question: Are you sure that Hitachi drive's slot is compatible with
the slot in the MBP's case? The Mac is a tad quirky. Many laptop
drives will fit in the space, but the drive slot is out of alignment
with the opening. Either higher or lower. I forget.

[MacCheetah3]

Hi
A bit more visual...



Select the hard drive in the left column ( i.e. 298.1 GB ST332062 in this case ). Yours very likely doesn't have a volume indented underneath the drive ( i.e. BACKUP in this case ). Select the Erase tab, choose Mac OS Extended or Mac OS Extended ( Journaled ) - Mac OS X: About file system journaling -, choose a name, and click Erase.