asus a7v and hard drive detection

Check the jumpers, then check them again. Check the cable and the power. What size of drive is it? Also if you have anything else connected I would dis-connect it to rule out and conflicting jumper settings.

The BIOS on this machine should be able to support anything from Megabytes to 127Giga-bytes.

Jumpers :::
GH - AB Master/No-Slave
GH - WF Master/Slave Present
CD - AB Slave
EF - AB Cable Select

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Remember, you may have to install "mass storage drivers" from the mobo CD. I'm not that familiar with your mobo, thats why I say 'may'.

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He should only need to do that if the OS didn't see the drive. In this case it's the BIOS. So it has to be a setting or a piece of hardware that's the problem.  

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Point.

Good lesson on reading properly before engaging brain.

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