HDD not recognized

[Toastrman]

I'm helping a friend transfer his hard drive from his old laptop to a new one atm. The dude who had the new laptop before him had two SATA II HDDs in a IDE setup (500GB master 120GB slave). My friend is trying to install a single 500 GB Seagate SATA II HDD in the master slot. Unfortunately, when we plug it in, BIOS does not pick it up in boot priority. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Dr-Kiev]

Most probably, ATM use ATA lock feature (user/master passwords) for all drives in it.
If you have access to the old drive from ATM, researching him , you'll find out fast what is going on.

 

[fzabkar]

ATM = At The Moment

In any case, a password protected drive should still identify itself to BIOS.

 

[Dr-Kiev]

ATM = At The Moment

In any case, a password protected drive should still identify itself to BIOS.

Yes, you are right, those 3 capital letters confused me, ATM machines also use Hard disk drives.