new hard drive recognized in the device mgr but not my computer how to format?

bought a new hard drive for additional storage running on xp home SP3.  It is recognized in the bios and in Device Manager but not on 'my computer '.  How can I access it to get in shape or to install the NTFS file system on it (if the formatting is incorrect terminology) then it will become usable as a storage device.

You use the disk for this purpose.

Start > run > diskmgmt.msc > OK

Right-click on the unallocated space, choose New Partition and use the wizard to (a) define a drive letter, (b) the size of the partition and (c) format the newly created partition.

For step by step directions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

To keep things simple, to stick to "basic disks and volumes" and "primary partitions" (you can have up to 4 per physical disk).

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