How to use 2nd SATA2 HD as storage? 2

[RangerRebel]

I just bought two Seagate SATA 2 HD's and wanted to use one for the operating system and use the second for storage. I had no problems using 2 regular IDE drives like this (the second drive would just show up as "E:" or whatever) but it doesn't seem to want to work with these new drives. I noticed there is no jumpers on the drive to change it to slave either. So, I'm wondering how to make this 2nd drive show up for me to use? I get the whole "found new hardware" message and all that but I can't phsically see the drive in "My Computer". Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

 

[jurgen36]

Well you have to format the drive so it can be seen by the system.
Regards

Jurgen

 

[BaudKarma]

That'll be in "Disk Management", which is under "Computer Management" in Administrative tools. Alternatively, type "Disk Management" into Help and follow the links.

 

[RangerRebel]

Got it working. Thanks so much for your help!