Problem with my SATA

[Larul]

Im trying to get my new computer to work and something is clearly wrong. My guess is that my harddrive is broken in some
way but before i say that it is broken let me explain what makes me think that.
First. It is an old harddrive from my old computer and my old computer died from something strange that i still dont know what it was.
Second. I tried to install Windows 7 on it when i first plugged it in and the installation worked fine til the instalation wanted to reset the system.
I let it reset and after that reset the windows cd hasn't found my harddrive again.
I do find the harddrive in BIOS but thats it. When i let the computer start up as it normaly would it just says "No harddrive detected" and wants
to start windows with fail-safe design but after a few sec it gets that whitout any kind of windows fail-safe is kinda hard and reboots.
I am sure that there is nothing wrong with the cd as my friend installed windows7 from the same cd.

Also. I love that I have no doubt that ill get the info I need from you here on THN.
What would one do whitout you guys?

 

[Ronin Storm]

Do you have any other hard drives in this system? Or just this old one?

When you say old, are you talking older than three years?

What make/model of hard drive?

You say SATA; sure it's SATA not PATA? (i.e. the new narrow cable, not the old wide cable)

Windows 7 should laugh at SATA drivers so the fact that the drive isn't detected beyond being a device that appears in BIOS is a little distressing, but it may also be something very simple such as boot device order. Have you tried removing the DVD from the drive and ensuring that you've not got any USB drives attached at boot time?