New Hard Drive Does not exist!

Hello,
I have an HP DV6 -3142 Laptop and recently after owning it for around a year, my hard drive seems to have crashed. When I try to boot up the laptop, it asks me to use system repair to "repair" my problem or start windows normally. Booting normally causes the laptop to be stuck at windos and revert back to booting up again (it's like a closed loop!). If i choose to "repair" I get stuck at a blue screen where the HP system recovery is supposed to help me either reset to factory settings or do a system restore. I also did a hard disk test in the BIOS and got an error 303. I had done a bit of research and from what i heard, It was a hard drive problem. I got a new hard drive (Samsung) and now when I try to install windows 7, It says that there are no devices to load windows 7 onto. In other words, the Hard disk does not exist (also did a test in bios). I tried to reseat the hard drive and reset BIOS, it didn't work. Now, when I try booting the new hard drive, it shows me a message saying "Media test failure: check cable".
Any ideas on how i could go about fixing this problem?

Welcome Larg.
Sorry but it sounds like your new hard drive is DOA.
If you have a SATA to USB I would hook it up to another computer and test it that way.
Or you may try to install it in another computer and see if you can test it that way.
Sorry.
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