No Drive Detected after using DBAN

[HausCalls]

Has anyone ever used Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)? If so, have you ever had a problem with your HD being recognized by Win XP during install? I used DBAN on two different HDs and now that I want to install one in a client's computer (HP 8860 Pavillion) windows will format and load drivers but once done, and windows attempts to open, it doesn't recognize that a HD is installed and I get the standard 'no hd detected' message. I'm am truly puzzled. I am having the same issue with both HDs. Running FDisk doesn't resolve this problem.

The HD's I used DBAN on are a WD400bb (Western Digital Caviar) 40gb and an old IBM 40 gb (in system now and I cant remember specs). Both survived DBAN's 3 passes successfully (a good test for the integrity/ stability of any hard disk, imo). (I'm replacing a dead Maxtor 96147H6)

I used the most recent version of DBAN, though my first time using it, it comes highly recommended by peers.

Any insight, direction, or previous experience would be much appreciated!

 

[Nodsu]

Did you use DBAN on the entire drive or just the partition (hdX or hdXY)?
If you wiped only a partition, then the (possibly weird-looking) partition table remained and Windows sucks at dealing with not-created-by-MS-tools MBRs.

 

[HausCalls]

Dban

There were no partitions, I had removed them (using the windows OS disk to do it). Are you thinking I should use something like Kill Disk first? I hadnt thought of using non windows software for removing the partition. Perhaps I should try it anyway? Can't hurt, disks are paperweights at this point.

Thanks for responding, I was thinkin' I was on my own with this one.