Was previously using a WD EIDE drive on vista/core2duo E8400/Asus 5QPL Pro.
Bought samsung SATA2 drive, plugged it in, removed EIDE connections, booted and it said HDD not found, press F1 to resume. It shows in the BIOS setup screen, but won't boot to it. Put a win7 beta CD in to do a fresh install, recognized HDD with around 430GB unallocated space (500gb drive), tried to create a new partition and it failed. Win7 said it couldn't install onto the CD and to check in BIOS if the HDD was set to boot.
Any ideas what's going on? is it a bad drive?
Help much appreciated.