Installing 2nd hard drive

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Hi guys I have just installed my second hard drive on my pc but it does not show on My Computer. Basically I connected the extra plug from the 1st HD to the 2nd HD. Then I used this red thin wire to connect the HD to motherboard, just like the 1st HD. In device manager under disk drives I see:

st3320620as ata device
st3500320as ata device

When I turned on my pc something came up on the taskbar saying "your new device is installed...."

What else should I do guys to get this up and running?

I have this by the way:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5IN 500GB SATA2 8.5MS 7200RPM 32MB Cache NCQ Hard Drive - DirectCanada
 
That's good. Now you just need to format the hard drive.

Start>Run>"compmgmt.msc"
Under Storage>Disk Managment>Right click on the new drives partition and format it to NTFS.
 
In Computer managemenr>Disk management I see my new HD 465.76GB as Unallocated and when I right click it I get "New Simple Volume". When you say format does that mean I have to install Vista again? Will it effect my 320GB primary HD? All I want to do is have more space on my current OS.
 
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