Dell Inspiron 9300 won't see hard drive

audiodude

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I added a new hard drive to my dell inspiron 9300. The bios does not detect the drive. I can't even load an OS on it. I've tried a WD 320 (ide) didn't work. Replace the drive the system came with and it still didn't see the hard drive. Any one experience this?
 

tecmo34

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Welcome to Tom's Hardware...

■Have you verified the new IDE's pins aren't set to Slave instead of Master?
■Have you verified everything is plugged in correctly & firmly?
■Do you have a second cable to try to rule out a defective cable?