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I did not replace my hard drive with an ssd, replaced with a 1tb WD internal hard drive. Why am I getting the flashing question mark?

Did you format the drive GUID, Mac OS X extended and put a system on it? This stuff doesn’t work like magic. UPDATE Your question is rather nebulous as to what you are doing and how and why. If you have installed a new unformatted hard drive and are attempting to do an internet installation, you’ll need to access Disk Utilities first and format the drive GUID and Mac OS X extended before attempting a system installation.