new sata harddrive not found help

[carl664]

hi there my wife's pc when belly up so we went out and got her a new hard drive like the old one sata type put it in pc and started it up with windows disk in it got to starting windows then says no hard drive found please help asap

motherboard is a ( ms-6741 ver:1)

harddrive is a (samsung hd103sj) sata

 

i have tried windows xp and vista

[Dalo Harkin]

You need to go into the BIOS and check that the drive is listed in there (did you plug the SATA lead that goes into the Motherboard into the same SATA port the old one was in, or is the old drive still in there too?)

to get into the BIOS you repeatedly click Delete when the PC is booting

[carl664]

yeah just looked in bios no drives at all it has picked up the two dvd drives she has but no hard drive and yes it in same port

[Dalo Harkin]

Ok,

 

I think that you had a smaller SATA drive in before, yes?

 

The problem with older boards is that they dont natively support much, HDD size being one of them, you will need a BIOS update in order for a 1TB+ drive to be recognised

 

That Motherboard was predominantly supplied by Gateway