My HDD won't detect in BIOS

Yesterday I bought HDD DT01ACA300 and it won't detect.
I've tried it on two motherboards (different ports and different controllers: AMD chipset, Intel chipset, JMicron) with different power and signal cables (which do work with my Samsung HDD and Lite-On SATA DVD drive) but it won't do any good...
It seems that the only thing that could've caused it may be PSU, but I can't verify this since I don't have a spare one. I've tried to disable most of unnecessary controllers on MB to lower power consumption, but it haven't helped.
From what I've read on Internet it seems that there's not much I can do by myself, and it's most likely faulty drive, but I still have some hope that I can make it work...
It would be quiet a big problem to return it: I'll have to send it into another city's authorized service center so that they would check it, and only then I can get a replacement (if noone will steal it by then, which may happen...).

This seems to be an common 3.5 SATA III HDD
If your desktop motherboard HDD controller supports SATA (SATA III is backward compatible) then it should not be a big problem to get the HDD running.
Possible its an HDD fault. It pity but something like that can happen.
Would recommend testing another new HDD.

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