Windows I have a new Seagate hard drive I am trying to install. The BIOS sees it but apparently Windows does not and will go any further on the install. Do I need Seagate drivers for this hard drive? If so how do I get a bootable disk?

try Seagate home

Install the Western Digital OS drive as a master with a slave present and the Seagate drive with no jumpers set as a salve. Turn on the computer and immediately press the Delete key or press it when prompted to enter the set up bios. The first screen is the Main BIOS Setup Menu. Do see you Seagate IDE secondary slave since. If none is displayed on the secondary slave highlight none in the secondary slave column and press enter. Press enter to auto detect the drive. If no drive is detected, enter the drive capacity, cylinder, and head manually. Make sure the PIO and UDMA are both set to auto. If the above results in no change you may try loading fail-safe defaults from the exit menu and save and exit. Start windows normally. If you do not see the drive click on start and select run. Type compmgmt.msc in the Open: pull down selection and click OK. Click on disk management and look for the Seagate drive. If you see it right click on the drive icon and make it basic. Make sure you see an assigned drive letter or right click on it and assign it a drive letter. The last task is to download and install Seatools and use the utility to try to repair the drive from the below link.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools&vgnextoid=720bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
Download and install Diskwizard and see if it will recognize the drive for a new install.
I sounds like you drive is defective on the interface which will require service.
You may have tried the above but if none of the above has any positive results the drive is defective.

hi
Checked the Bios Setting and check whether the Hard drive is recognizing or not -
Check the Boot sequence
Check Boot from the CD Drive
Format the Hard drive
it will work

If Windows was all ready installed, you will probably have to reinstall it. I got a new (used)PC, and put my old drive in it, and all I see after BIOS is a blinking cursor, but I can access the drive booting from the drive that came with the PC.

Your bios should show the installed drives. So we are clear it is actually the BIOS we are discussing - the bios is reached by pressing F1 usually when the machine is first started. Hardware is different - it is reached via control panel after windows is running. If the BIOS shows the drive as installed and windows does not see it - then the problem is that the drive has no partition or is not formatted correctly. Partition the drive first, then format it and windows will then "see" it and identify it.
If the BIOS of the machine cannot "see" the drive and list it - possibly the cabling or jumper setting is wrong, for example you cannot install two master drives or two slave drives on the same cable. If they are both new and you are trying to put them both on the same controller at the same time one will have to be changed. Another possibility is that the controller is disabled in the BIOS, it will not see a drive then either. If the bios does not "see" the drive at all after these steps - the drive is likely defective. Most drives without a "driver" if working correctly will install as a generic drive and appear in windows.Installing the correct Motherboard drivers such as Intel Chipset drivers from the Intel site will then allow the bios after booting to correctly ID the drive and install drivers if it needs them. Intel has a Chip Utility which will ID your board chipset to get the correct drivers for it. You might also try enabling or disabling the plug and play OS option in the bios. When plug and play is enabled bios settings can be altered by windows, when disabled (non plugplay) windows works around what the bios tells windows it has for hardware to install other devices.

Configuring the BIOS
After completing the drive installation, restart your computer. Your computer
may automatically detect your new drive. If your computer does not
automatically detect your new drive, follow the steps below.
1. Restart your computer. While the computer restarts, run the system
setup program (sometimes called BIOS or CMOS setup). This is usually
done by pressing a special key, such as DELETE, ESC, or F1 during
the startup process.
2. Within the system setup program, instruct the system to auto detect
your new drive.
3. Save the settings and exit the setup program.
When your computer restarts, it should recognize your new drive.

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see after teh utility named Partition Magic, It will solve these typoe of errors. Another cheap option is to try to format it with a vintage computes BIOS, HDD Formattion option, Not available in newer BIOS.
Tyr aldo Fdisk /mbr in the DOS PROMPT , booting with D.O.S. Ver. 6.0 Anyone remember this Operating system?
And the last option is to format the drive undel LINUX and thern get it back to Windows XP.

just no other solution except upgrading BIOS properly

the harddrive size is in another measurement system and the actual size of the drive is exactly what you are seeing 152.

here you can see how my disks show
160GB disk - 152,66GB
1000GB disk - 931.51GB

that is correct.

Hi, Was the original 20Gb HD also a SATA or was it installed as an IDE? Try installing a fresh clean Windows rather than the restore disc. However, you will need the drivers for the SATA 160Gb and press F6 when Windows installers ask you to. Post back how things turn up or should you need further information. Hope this be of some idea/help. Good luck and kind regards.