Hi guys,

yesterday i bought a new Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320 GB. i connected it to my MSI K9N-Neo f mainboard but as soon as i boot my computer it starts making a strange noise. At this link http://www.hardware.info/forum/att [...] 1196953584 i've uploaded a zip with a wav-record of this noise. My harddisk is also not recognized, by the bios, as long as i hear the noise. But after a few minutes the noise stops and the disk is recognized by the bios. However, no information about the disk is displayed, just [] instead of 'not connected'. Not surprisingly, when I try to install vista the disk is also not recognized. Is this harddisk broken or do i have to change a bios setting?
plz help me, this is driving me crazy

RMA the thing.

As a general rule - anytime a HD starts making odd noises, beep, click, etc.. its time to backup your data and replace it.

OK you bought the drive.
Did you remove the old drive or add this?
If you just swapped out the drive the system may be confused and is trying to use the old parameters to communicate.
You can install both drives the new one as a second and see if the bios picks it up and/or the you get the same problem.
Can you get into setup with no drive? if so save settings then power off and install and power up with the new drive.