K52j asus cant see hdd during windows 7 install process

[wacky17]

Hello,
I have a ASUS K52J laptop, the HDD that was in the uit from new failed. I want to put a new HDD into the laptop - once I do this and start the win 7 install - the HDD is not recognised as part of the install process.
I upgraded the bios to the lastet version from ASUS.
The bios sees the new hdd ok - but windows 7 doesnt. I noticed there is the ability to load drivers in the win 7 install process - but dont know what to load.
I have tried various settings under the bios - such as changing to ide mode. any suggestions please

 

[compulsivebuilder]

Normally the only time you need to load drivers during the install is when the drive is attached to an unusual controller (such as a RAID conroller). I would have thought that it shouldn't be necessary in this case. I don't see any drivers on the ASUS site, so it seems that they don't think they are necessary either.

 

[Pyree]

Run diskpart from the recovery disk and see if you can initialize your new HDD there. I know, HDD do that, they should be ready out of the box but not.

 

[wacky17]

I checked the new hdd in another pc to ensure it was formatted. It was recognized and formatted in another pc. But when I put the drive into the ASus and went through the win 7 install process it was stll not recognized.
I tried another hdd in the ASus, and it was not recognized either.
I put the original hdd (crashed) and this not working one was recognized but gives heaps of crashing problems.
There must be some driver required ?