I have tested this computer with my mother-in-laws hard-drive and it works.  When I put the hard drive that is supposed to be in there, half way through the post it says "remove disks or other media, press enter to restart".  There are no problems with the A: drive and there is nothing in the D: drive.  Please somebody help me because I am broke and haven't had a computer in a long time.Is there data stored on the harddrive?

If it is a new harddrive, you have to format before installing the Operating System.

Also make certain the harddrive is properly configured - Both jumpers and BIOS.I made SURE that the jumpers were correct because when I put the jumper on the slave position, the post would stall for atleast 5 minutes and nothing would happen.  I got the computer from my friend and I have used it before with this hard drive in it.  I checked the power going to all of the drives and they are above 6v DC.  Are there any other suggestions?  PLEASE!!!!!try using master instead of slave..It should only be SET to slave if there is another harddisk present which you would like to use as master.by PLACE the hard drive which has problems as a master it may prove that the IDE cable has had it?It is on the primary and this harddrive has always been on the computer.  I figured out the ide1 slot didn't work so I am using the ide2 slot now.  I also have used a different cable and it doesn't work.Are you certain it is the slot that is not WORKING and not the BIOS being improperly configured?