theoldwolf | Dude, where's my disk?

So I have this Dell Inspiron 1100 with 2 IDE hard drives and 2 optical drives. I figure I'll slip a SATA controller in there and get some extra storage going.

Find the drivers, install them, plug in the controller and the disk... and nothing.

Went to my BIOS setup screen and I can't figure out how to get this extra disk recognized by the system.

Any ideas from the w1z4rd h4xx0rz out there?

[Edit:] Huge thanks to my commenters who found an answer for me - It turns out that the Disk Management option is something I had never played with in all my years of using XP, and it was waiting to create a new volume and format it. Huzzah!]

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As said previously, there's also the BIOS limit of the drive size, though this shouldn't matter when using the SATA card. Don't know what OS you're running though, but each has its limit on hard drive size: http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm

Though, that Dell Inspiron is pretty old, around the year 2000, correct?

Dude, where's my disk?

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