I just finished building a new computer, first time builder, and don't know if there's something I'm missing or if my hdd is toast out of the box (or if something else is wrong). I have a seagate 1 TB Barracuda LP harddrive and a gigabyte H67M-D2 motherboard (one of the recalled ones, but can't return it yet) and have it connected to the sata 0 port (one of the 'good' 6gb/s ports). When I turn on the computer it goes to BIOS fine, but trying to load my windows 7 disc for installation gets me a "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" message. In frustration I fiddled with some BIOS settings and accidentally changed to an AHCI setup, which recognized the CDROM in the sata 1 slot and got as far as the windows loading screen, but didn't see the hdd in the sata 0 spot.
I'm guessing its the harddrive as it seems it wasn't recognized in either configuration (I've switched the settings back to default from AHCI and still get the error message). The IDE master/slave slots are empty with auto detect turned on, and I tried changing the boot order to use the CDROM first, to no effect (the cd drive does spin when I put the disc in, though).
As a final note, my hdd clicks a few times at power up, so I know it's getting power. It's not a ton of clicking, so I don't know if that's a bad sign (clicks of doom) or a good sign (clicking as it powers up). The sata cable is secure (checked it twice) and I don't have a backup cable to try but don't know the likelihood of that as the culprit. I appreciate any advice; yes, I'm a frustrated newbie.
I'm guessing its the harddrive as it seems it wasn't recognized in either configuration (I've switched the settings back to default from AHCI and still get the error message). The IDE master/slave slots are empty with auto detect turned on, and I tried changing the boot order to use the CDROM first, to no effect (the cd drive does spin when I put the disc in, though).
As a final note, my hdd clicks a few times at power up, so I know it's getting power. It's not a ton of clicking, so I don't know if that's a bad sign (clicks of doom) or a good sign (clicking as it powers up). The sata cable is secure (checked it twice) and I don't have a backup cable to try but don't know the likelihood of that as the culprit. I appreciate any advice; yes, I'm a frustrated newbie.