Help HDD isn't recognized

I assume that both the SATA cable and SATA power cable are connected.

Use the blue SATA Port for the HDD:

| B/Blank | B/HDD | W/Blank | .... CPU
| B/Blank | B/DVD | W/Blank |

Not being recognized by what? Bios? My computer? Device manager?

Did you initialize the hd in disk management?

The HDD is recognized by the Bios....Its a brand new WD HDD... When i try to install windows 7 the HDD isn't being recognized. I'm thinking its Windows 7, any thoughts on how to fix this.

Then the problem is 80% DVD or 20% Windows 7 (lacking drivers for DVD). The 'Fix' is to use/create a USB install. You need a 4GB Flash Drive and create an ISO.

Link1 (ISO) - http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage...
Link2 (DVD) - http://www.maximumpc.com/article/howtos/how_install_win...
Link3 (DVD different tutorial) - http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7vist...

I actually have windows on a thumb drive and dvd and both are doing the same thing.

Then I assume there's an OS already on the HDD - reformat it.

Otherwise see -> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Installing-...

This is what i did..... I took a laptop hdd and placed it into my desktop. I booted my desktop with the laptop hdd. I then placed the WD HDD ( the one that i've been having trouble with) as a second hard drive. I noticed that windows recognized the WD HDD and could write to it. I also reformatted the WD HDD. I then tried to run the windows installation from my laptop hdd so i could install it on my WD HDD and once again it didn't recognize it. I thought maybe i could clone my laptop HDD to my WD HDD and Acronis "clone software" couldn't recognize the WD HDD as well. This is frustrating...... Why can i write to the WD HDD but cant install the OS.

Your not explaining what your trying to do....you booted a desktop with your laptop hd?? Why? Why are you cloning the drive?

So you can write to the drive but it's not recognized....what are you writing to the drive?

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Simply install the DVD + HDD as I posted above. I can certainly understand when a DVD fails (failure happens often enough), but not when a 'Correct' USB install is used as I also linked above. I very rarely use the DVD to install an OS, and you MUST use the native USB 2.0 ports -- USB 3.0 will NOT work.

figured it out.....the hdd is broken..... ran some tests on it to see if it could write zeros and it i got a bunch of errors.

If the HDD is brand new, then why you are going to fix HDD errors? Simply get a replacement.