SATA Drive Install Problems

ED!

I picked up a Maxtor 500GB 7200 Sata drive from Fry's. The one on sale. I tried hooking it up directly, and while the BIOS recognizes it, I can not get it to be recognized in Windows. All that happens is I get the "found mass storage device" warning, windows looks for drivers I assume, and then nothing. The CD that the drive came with is not very useful as it only has Diagnostic Tools on it. Google-search says to install SATA drivers, but I currently already have a SATA HD connected to a SATA2 connector with no problems whatsoever.

I really have no idea what to do at this point. I have visited the MB website and downloaded all drivers pertinent to SATA drives except for the RAID driver which I heard wasn't needed for what I'm trying to do (just use the 500GB as storage).

This is the MB I have: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2
This is the HD I have: http://shop1.outpost.com/product/4551377

Any help would definitely be appreciated.

ecco the dolphin

Have you formatted the drive?

As an administrative user:

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management

See if there's a disk with about 500gb "Unallocated" space, then right click on it, select New Partition, and follow the handy prompts.

ED!

The only tools I have to format the drive is a CD that came with the HD. But nothing in there actually allows me to format the drive beyond cloning it to another drive, which I don't want to do. I want a new drive for simple storage (I get that it needs to be formatted before it can actually be used). I've been into the Disk Management before and it is not showing up there.

This is just frustrating.

ED!

Bumping my own thread. Still haven't been able to get it going.