[bhross]

Hello,
My hard drive went out so I bought a new one from E Bay.I started installing Vista as it said to do on the Microsoft help site. Now i can't do anything because my Hard Drive diabled and I don't know how or why.
HELP please.

bhross:wave:

 

[Corday]

Did you buy a new HDD or is there a chance something was already on it?

 

[bhross]

It was blank and new.

 

[Wand3r3r]

what is telling you the drive is "disabled"?

 

[bhross]

it's a Western Digital SATA 250 gb.

 

[bhross]

when i try to install vista it says no drive. I hit f2 and looked and it says disabled.

 

[bhross]

when i go into bios setup utility it sya SATA0 not recognized also

 

[Corday]

Any chance originally it was just the cable and not the HD. If you're still using the same cable, swap it out. Also, I don't know the jumper settings for your SATA, but wrong ones could cause the problem.