Bios not detecting Hard drive properly

sic6six

sic6six

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just been trying to install windows onto a newly installed hard drive. can set the bios to detect the drive when going through bios setup but every time we restart the pc it erases the saved information from the bios. everything else is saved fine. the 2 dvd drives are picked up and the time and date are set up correctly but the hard drive wont be automatically detected by it. it detects the old drive that was in there no problem.

does anyone have any ideas??
 
semi-pro waster said:
Just to get the obvious out of the way - It is a bit of a long shot but you haven't accidentally set a jumper on the motherboard to clear CMOS have you?

What is the new hard drive? What motherboard do you have? How far through Windows setup can you get?
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The hard drive is a Western Digital 80GB
The Mobo is an Asus A7V600-X

Got as far as copying the files to the hard drive after the format using windows 98 (xp home is an upgrade so not full version). when the computer restarts it says disc boot failure, please insert system disc. it does this every time so we cant install windows properly as we cannot get to the full installation section.
 
i would do this but the bios won't detect the drive at all. you set it to detect the drive in bios. it saves and restarts, then acts as if it is not there still. the rest of the bios is fine, nothing out of the ordinary at all. just the one hard drive
 
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