ESATA and HD help! ~ another can't find drive...

Hi all.

Sorry, I must seem awfully dumb & newbi, but I've got a eSATA PCI card (for my Dell Dimension 3100), and a new Western Digital 1TB external HD.

I've installed the basic driver for the PCI card, and wanted a simple plug in and play option for the HD.

I've read a few posts about partitioning the HD, as it's brand new, but I cannot find it on my computer or thru the control panel; (admin tools; computer management; storage).

I don't want a raid option at all, just plug and play thru esata for the speeds.

if you could at least say which would be wrong - not partitioned/formatted HD or incorrectly installed PCI card that'd be a good start for me, or something 'wrong' with the settings of my BIOS (no idea what this is, btw)

Thanks, Jake.