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fdisk can't find Drive 1

I just put a new system together with a 60 gig hard drive. System board is a GigaByte GA-7VRXP. I booted using a Windows ME boot disk and when I run Fdisk it says "unable to access drive 1". I used the /x switch but the same thing happens. I have used the BIOS auto detect and manually set the drive perimeters with the same results. Using the /status switch shows drive 1 with no entries. What did I do and how can I correct this?
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Yes, it is a new drive. I just removed it and used another and fdisk detected it just fine. The new drive is a bad drive. Thank you for alerting me to the obvious.
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