Could be you didnt set it up with a secondary program in the bios that handles hard drives. My board is like that where it has secondary bios type programs that show up after the post screen for my hard drives, wake up on x (lan etc), and changing the boot order, and they have entirely seperate menus from the bios itself
Failing that i would try a boot disk and try to manualy partition the drive. if the partition program cant see the drive, then either its a bios problem, or a hardware problem (defective drive, jumpers set up incorrectly on the back of the hd, or on the board itself, or just not properly pluged in).
First check you got it installed correctly, with the right jumper settings (master, primary drive), check the connections, and power.
Starting with the bios, check if its set to automaticly configure the drive, if it is already set that way you may want to try manualy configuring it (instructions that came with the drive should give you instructions as to how it should be configured)
Also go through the rest of the bios, make sure its on the boot list as a bootable drive, alot of the versions of windows (xp, nt, etc) refuse to install unless they are installed to the primary master drive, and that it is set as a boot drive in the bios. Also check for anything else that is incorrectly set up.
If all this fails then the drive may well be defective (unlikely but it does happen). I would seek proffessional help, or try to get a replacement.
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