Hard drive shows up in BIOS but not disk management or device manager?

fugazi331

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I purchased a Western Digital Blue WD10EZEX 1TB hard drive, and it shows up in my BIOS. I checked diskmgmt.msc, and device manager for the drive, but it's not there.

Are these the symptoms of a dead drive?
 

fugazi331

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got a new one and it worked!