I have noticed a lot of threads reporting this same problem, hoever none that I have found so far have posted the solution that worked for me -
In BIOS, change the IDE to :
For NON-S-ATA users - P-ATA from S-ATA.
For S-ATA users - S-ATA from P-ATA.
Hope this works for you as well.
Welcome to D-A-L
And thanks for the tip!