BIOS not recognising SATA Hard Drive

When i started my PC the other day i received the error ‘DISK BOOT FAILURE , INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER’ in the BIOS. The 160g SATA disk was quite old so i bought a new 1 TB HDD. I installed it and i am 100% sure i did it correctly however , it was not ‘recognised’ either.

My previous HDD has been working for years without any RAID configurations and i am suprised how it stopped working so suddenly.

Motherboard: http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=A-N68SV&fMTYPE=Socket+AM2 + NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT and a Non-Brand 4.1 Sound Card

My old hard disk was a MAXTOR , i dont know any details like the model number because i did not buy it.