I just purchased a Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB sata-300 HDD. I have an 80GB Western Digital IDE HDD in as primary drive with OS. I plugged in the SATA to my EliteGroup P4M800PRO-M2 motherboard and power supply. BIOS sees it, the computer recognizes it, but I have absolutley no access to it..."My Computer" does not show the new drive...How would I go about getting this fixed so that I can transfer files as storage space?

Did you set the jumpers?

How would I go about setting up the jumpers?

For you to see it in My Computer, the drive has to be formatted/partitioned. That can be accomplished in the Disk Manager. Right click My Computer and select 'Manage' > Storage > Disk Manager.

awesome!! I knew it would be something stupid simple, just couldn't figure it out. I have 1 new question now though...I made the new drive, but it is only allowing 465GB out of the 500GB I purchased. Is there some way to gain acess to the other 35GB?? Make smaller partitions or what?

That's caused by the difference in the way Windows counts and the way hard drive manufacturers count. Reference the folowing: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ar...

Wow, that's crazy. Pretty interesting article and makes me never want to buy anything terabyte or higher due to higher % lost. Thanks for the insight Aegis, you have been worlds of help!!