Sony Vaio Laptop Hard Drive not recognized by Bios

[alanatswbell]

I have a sony laptop with a bad 640gig wd scorpio drive. I bought a 1TB wd scorpio drive to install in the laptop. The drive is not found by the bios. Bios says no drive installed. Drive works in hp laptop. Has anyone seen this before? Can anyone help?

 

[robvas]

Does the bad 640GB drive show up in the HP laptop?

 

[alanatswbell]

Don't know. Will check tomorrow.

 

[alanatswbell]

It shows up

Bump

 

[unhappy_mage]

Perhaps the SATA controller on the Sony laptop is broken, not the drive. Send it in for repair, or find a replacement motherboard for it on Ebay if you're feeling ambitious.