Qosmio G20 - New HDD doesn't work

I have a G20 and trying to change out one of my 60GB HDDs for a brand new 250GB (Western Digital WD2500BEVS, SATA 150, 5400 rpm).
First thing I need to add is that hard drive is fully detectable, formatable and usable in my desktop computer...but in my G20s it only detects it in the BIOS but has a status of 'failed' and my OS (XP) cannot see it at all.
Please can anyone help?

Yes you are correct.
I have a 60GB running my OS and attempted to install the new hard disc into the other slot. I did change the BIOS settings to RAID-0, even tryied RAID-1 (using the 60GB I took out and the new 250GB) but the 'built-in' status at the bottom of the BIOS menu for the 250 always shows "FAILED".
I even tried taking out all other discs and using only the 250, setting it to JBOD but still the same. I must confess I have given up using this as an internal drive since I read in the manual that either I use it as a 60GB (loosing any benefit of buying a lager capacity disc), or if it was set to "JBOD" I wouldn't be able to put windows on it.
Life is too short, so last night I bought a 2.5 external caddy and it works just fine.

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