Second HDD help

[AngryYankee]

I have a second SATA 500GB HDD that I want to install.  When I simply plug it into my SATA port and connect it to the power, my PC does not read it.  Do I have to enable anything in BIOS?  I don't want to have RAID set up, just a spare drive to store information.

Any helpzor?

[Schlup]

Yeah, go in the BIOS and in the boot options make sure it is showing there as one of the options, it can be the bottom or last one, doesn't matter as long as it's in there.

[AngryYankee]

I'm just going to wait till I get Win7.  I enable RAID in BIOS and set up RAID 0 so I can have the additional space, but it tells me I will lose all data once RAID setup is complete.  So when I gfet Win7 I'll enable RAID and have a new OS installed.

[Monkey_Grill]

If it is a new hard (no partitions set up), Windows will not be able to put any data on it. Simply right click on My Computer> Manage. Then click on Disk Management in the left area. Select the hard drive that doesn't have a partition on it and right click it> Format. Go through the Wizard, leave everything default and make sure it creates a NTFS file system. Also select Quick Format to save time. You can label the drive whatever you want.

[AngryYankee]

Thanks Grill.  Worked like a charm.

[Schlup]

Sweet, so you got it fixed!