what you want to do is  use hardrive utility software for your particular
drive.
You can go to the websites of many harddrive makers like Maxtor.com,
seagate.com, westerndigital.com

There you can get setup utilites that will format your drive and let the pc
recognize the drive, it is called ez-bios it will work for the the specific
manufacturere drive only meaning if seagate drive download from seagate
etc...

The other thing you can do would be to upgrade cpu and change motherboard.
You can get AMD Processors and board from 125 and up. Upgrading the these
components would benefit you in the long run, and the new drive you probably
have will benefit from higher controller speeds of newer board.

upgrading the bios could be pricey or you can go to your current motherboard
manufacturer and try to flash the bios if it will help recognize the drive,
if know bios upgrade available go with new cpu and motherboard
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Abel Celestin Jr.
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