Inability to read the new HARD drive

I bought a new hard drive for my laptop. After installing it, I didn't get the message none found a fixed drive. I updated the bios from the Toshiba site and the same message is still there.

I also tried the drive in another laptop. It has been recognized correctly, so I formatted one installed Windows XP Pro top. It worked ok so I tried again in my laptop but message saying put system disk and press any key. So I put XP disc in it starts the installation starts to transfer files and doesn't give the message no hard drive found so it still does not find the hard drive.

Please can someone help?

Ken

Hi Ken

It will be interesting to know what model of laptop you have. Obviously the HARD drive is not properly recognized. On this path, it is not easy to say why, but perhaps there is problem with the contacts and the HARD drive cannot be recognized by BIOS.

Good bye

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