How to enable another HDD.please help.

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Guys i have a 80gb IDE HDD. I got another 250gb SATA hdd.Now after adding the sata when i booted windows 7 detected the HDD and gave message successfully installed the new device.But i cannot find it or it is not being shown in the hdd list.I only see those old partition of 37 and 38 gb.

How to enable the new hdd please help. My IDE jumper settings = ] J ] J ]

where ]= empty pins
J=jumper
I did not get any jumper pins with the new sata drive.
Bios is american megatrend
Please help.

1)Go to control panel in which you will find "Add a Device" In hardware & sound category.
2)just click on "Add a device" it will search new hardware(i.e your hard disk 250GB).
3)when hardware found out just click on that hard disk that found & click on next & finally finish.

Note: (if u will not find "Add a device" then in control panel change "view by" as "Category")

I suspect that the drive is not formatted .... the easiest way to fix this is to download Easeus partition master
EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition - CNET Download.com
, select the drive and format it.
However we can do this using the default windows tools but this is an easy way with nice graphical interface.
I hope this solves your problem.

right click on my computer, click on manage option, select disk management ,check if its shows your new drive there , if yes then assign a drive letter to it by right click . Hope it will help you.