Board does not see HDD

Question

Am new at this, first time assembler.  bought MS-6524 board, 512mb, 133 mem and case w/300watt pu.  
On startup (or anyother time) no hdd(s) are recognized.  CMOS utility will see CD-ROM but not hdd when attached to same ribbon.  FDD is recognized.  
have tried hdds (2) on primary and secondary IDEs, alone and as master and slave.  Have moved mem from dimm 1 to dimm 2 and back again.  I don't think I have missed any combinations but this thing cannot find a hard drive.
Both hard drives are w2k pro, NTFS and work dandy in my old computer.
HELP

Answer 1

Try clearing the CMOS depending on your motherboard using the JBAT1 or ClearCMOS jumper on the motherboard by moving the jumper from pins 1 & 2 to pins 2 & 3 for about 5 seconds and then move the jumper back to pins 1 & 2 but make sure you turn the power off and unplug the power lead from your computer before you do this because you could damage your motherboard.
Also have you checked to see if both IDE1 & IDE2 are enabled in the BIOS and have you tried autodetect IDE. Also some motherboards don't like HDD's and CDROM's being on the same IDE and you should allways put HDD's on IDE1 and CDROM's on IDE2 and you can only have two drives on each IDE.
If your HDD's are still not detected your motherboard probably doesn't have the support for them and you may need to update your BIOS.
If that doesn't work you could give this a try. Put the HDD's back in your old system one at a time and boot it up with Win 9X or Win ME boot floppy and select option (3) Start computer without CDROM support. When you get to the A:\ prompt type FDISK and press enter. You will see two messeges one about FAT & FAT32 and the other about NTFS, select Y for Yes on both of these messeges. When you get to the FDISK options menu select option (3) Delete partition or logical DOS Drive then select option (4) Delete Non - Dos partition. Now you need to select the partition you want to delete and press enter. When this is done you need to press the Esc key to return to the FDISK options menu and select option (1) Create Dos partition or logical Dos Drive and press enter. First it will check your drive and then it will ask if you want to use all of the disk space for this patition select Y for yes and it will start to create the partition. When it's done you need to press the Esc key untill you get back to the A:\ prompt. Now you have to restart your computer with the Windows boot floppy and select option (3) Start computer without CDROM support. When you get to the A:\ prompt type FORMAT C: and press enter you will be asked if you want to continue press Y for yes then press enter. When the FORMAT is complete you will be asked about the volume label just press enter. Now switch off your computer and put the drive back into your new computer and it should be detected.
Let me know what happens.