No ide device - what does this mean?

I just replaced the hard drive on my pavalion dv6707us.  I am unable to do the system recovery process.  When testing the hard drive I get the message - No IDE device.  What is this?

Jenilynnb1,
Sounds like the drive is not seated on the connectors.
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