Unallocated hard drive (no space)

I install a new secondary hard drive.

The hard drive does not appear in Windows Explorer.

The drive appears in disk management.  However, it is not allocated.  If I right click this drive, the available options are the following: new Simple Volume..., properties and help.

How to assign a drive letter and make it appear in Windows Explorer?

Thanks for any help.

In disk management, create a new simple volume, format and it assign a drive letter.  Then it will appear in Windows Explorer. Boulder computer Maven
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