Windows 7 setup won't recognize harddrive?

does the bios recognise your drive? when your computer is booting up it will give you the option of "Entering Setup" by selecting F2... you then go into BIOS-Basic Input Output System to see if your computer knows the hard drive is there at all. First thought is that you need to find a driver for that hard drive... I would go to western digital... http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupi... ... dowload the most recent and best driver for windows 7... could be something as simple as an old driver even though your drive is probably brand new. after that you start looking at connections... cords etc

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