HD not recognized in BIOS

[c4rnag3]

I have a 40gig Seagate that I bought from a friend, it worked
great for the longest time. I dual-booted Win98 and RH7.3,
until I eventually retired the computer to my basement.

Later I remembered that I had a perfectly good 40gig that I
could be using for storage, so, I put it in my current computer
to format. Unfortunately things went awry. Now the drive
is not recognized by anything.

Anything, except a BSD disk we had in the office that I used
to get to fdisk. I haven't been able to use this to make the HD
recognized anywhere else, and therein lies problem.

I lied, seagate's disk utility also recognizes the HD and says
there is nothing physically wrong. So, I'm stumped, any solutions?

 

[s8n]

little more info, it is on your mobo's integrated ide... or do you have it attached to a raid/external controller?

etc, need info like what mobo, how you're attaching it, any other drives on the chain, etc.

 

[c4rnag3]

right now it is in some crappy compaq in our office...
hooked up through the integrated IDE, along with a CD-Rom on a
seperate IDE port (although sometimes I leave the cd-rom out).

I have tested it in my own computer, as well as various other
computers in the office. This one is just being used for
convenience as it wont be going anywhere soon.

initially the problem was that it wasn't recognized if I tried to
set it as a slave, then it eventually was not recognized at all.