Hard drive dead or no?

[2wiced]

Hey guys,

so i got a 30 gig maxtor from a friends dell pc, i replaced his drive with a 120gb.

Im curious, the drive shows up in the bios, but it is not recognized by windows. When i try to install windows on it, the computer doesnt see it. Its like its there, but not recognized.

anyways i can get it running or is it gone?

 

[dirtydr]

You could either run maxtors disk utility or plug it into a working machine and check in the disk management section of mmc to get some insight as to what is going on.

 

[underdone]

Right click on my computer, click on manage. Go to disk management, right click on the new hard disk and select format.