Brink

Hi Usurperr, and welcome to Vista Forums.

It sounds like you may not have you BIOS setup properly for the drive. Consult with your motherboard manual for this to help you also. You will need to check in BIOS to make sure that the port you plugged the new IDE hard drive into on the motherboard is set for IDE in the BIOS (CMOS or Integrated Peripherals) settings and not for SATA or RAID.

Also, double check you IDE ribbon cable and power connections to make that they are secure and fully connected.

Hope this helps,
Shawn