theFlash1932 and natacuk4 Although I was not able to swap the Sata cables as natacuk4 suggested; it looks like just unplugging and reseating he Sata cables did the trick!! I've been able to boot the system several times and it appears that everything is working fine. Thank you guys for helping me resolve this issue!
The hard drive in my Inspiron one 2305 crashed and i attempted to install a 500GB Seagate Barracuda drive. The Bios does not detect the drive. I noted that the SATA mode option in the BIOS was set to AHCI. I changed the mode to ATA and the BIOS detected the drive. However when I try to install a clean version of Windows 7 (Dell OEM Disk), midway through the installation the installation fails. I noticed that the reason it fails, is that the installation process now doesn't see the hard drive. Can someone tell me what steps i must take to do the installation?
bios in Inspiron 2305 does not detect hard drive in ahci mode