9300 can not detect the 160 GB HARD drive

I have an Inspiron 9300 with a HARD 80 GB Hitachi drive I tried to replace it with a Seagate 5400.3 160 GB of disk HARD but when I boot, the HARD drive cannot be detected even. In the BIOS it says "primary hard disk {none}".

I tried to use the 160 GB as an external HARD drive and it works fine. Any help is appreciated! Thks.


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