HP 2000 running Windows 7 bios shows no hard drive?

"Press ECS to boot" appears when turning on power. PXE-M0F error on HP 2000 appears upon boot. F1, shows "System Information," F2 runs memory, and hard drive test (and passes), F9 lists all but hard drive to boot (hard drive was replaced, and is 3 hours old), F10 shows a lot of information, but under "Boot Options"doesn't show hard drive exists! And does anyone know what PXE-M0f error on HP 2000 means? Lastly F11 "System Recovery" with the Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive sellected as first, still doesn't see; or boot the "Microsoft DVD Windows 7 DVD?!!!
Life in Hell,
Hank

PXE just means it has run our of hardware to boot from and is looking for a network boot server (PXE) to boot from. If you turn off network boot as an option in the BIOS that will disappear. If a new hard drive is in it and the BIOS does not see it unfortunately that looks from here like a motherboard issue with the SATA port.
System Recovery is set to use the recovery partition on the hard drive or HP recovery disks, not a Windows XP Microsoft disk. To use that just boot off the internal CD/DVD from the F9 boot menu. It might be interesting to see if a Windows 7 install disk sees the hard drive.

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