Windows 7 setup can not find hard disk

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Published on 2012-10-19T09:06:26Z Indexed on 2012/10/19 11:09 UTC
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Previously I had an old Seagate barracuda 160GB HDD which got crashed some days before. Yesterday I bought new Hard Disk Seagate Barracuda 500GB (ST500DM002).

I just replaced the 500GB hard disk with 160GB one leaving data and power cable intact and untouched. And ideally this new hard disk should start functioning. I tried to install Windows 7 with DVD the setup says you don't have any hard disks installed on your machine. I rechecked connection tried with Win XP setup but continued receiving same error. Do I need to do some initialization stuff with hard disk before installing setup?

If so how to do it. If not then is there any problem with my newly bought hard disk?

Thanks In Advance.

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