HP Pavilion Elite e9120y bios does not recognize any cd/dvd/bluray or hard disk drives

I erased my hard disk to install Windows 7.  Now my computer intermittently does not recognize that there are any drives attached to the sata ports.  I go into BIOS pressing F10 and it does not list any drives at all.  I have a DVD burner and a bluray and a western digital 1TB hard drive connected.  Sometimes they show that they are connected other times it doesn't.  It's strange.
When it does recognize there are drives connected, I boot up from the Windows 7 DVD.  Then I try to create a partition on the hard drive.  The installation recognizes a 930GB hard drive with no partitions.  Every time I try to create a partition, it says I need a driver for the hard drive.  I have a driver that I downloaded off of HP's website yesterday, the driver for nvidia sata.  I put it on my usb drive.  It recognizes it but says it is the wrong driver.  I don't know what else to do.  I have built dozens of computer and repaired hundreds, but I have never run across a problem like this and I hope you can help me.

Thanks for your help, but that's exactly the driver I used.  It didn't work.
My problem is not just with the hard drive.  All three drives (two optical, one hard disk) should show up in bios, whether or not there is a disk in the optical drive or a partition on the hard drive.  It intermittently stops detecting the drives.  One time I boot and go into BIOS they are there, and I can run installation of Windows (partially).  But if a turn off the computer and turn it back on, they've disappeared.  Sometimes they will be detected, sometimes they won't.
I'm thinking the driver problem with the Windows 7 Professional x64 installation is somehow connected to the drives randomly not showing up.  All drives stop showing up at the same time, not just the hard drive.  So it's not a driver issue.  It has to be connected to the BIOS and motherboard.
This computer is only 4 months out of warranty.
Any more help would be appreciated.

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