Dude, where's my disk?

[theoldwolf]

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!]

Comments

[stevenroy.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help!

Just out of curiosity, how much memory do you have in that computer?

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

I'm maxed out at 2GB. I just upgraded from 1.25 last month. I now have one extra slot on my SATA card, and another disk to install as soon as I can figure out how to get power to it. The original power cable only had one SATA power canon on it. So I can get at least another year's use out of this box before I need to upgrade.