My secondary hard drive will not show up in my bios or windows 8

[melzy42]

Hey I have a second hard drive from an old windows vista computer. It is a 120gb seagate barracuda and i would like to use it for storage in addition to my 1tb existing hard drive. When i plug in the SATA cable and SATA power cable nothing shows up. Is there something I need to do to the hard drive from my vista computer like completely wipe out the hard drive?
Thanks, M.

 

[SchizTech]

Can you see the drive in the Disk Management console? Right-click Computer in the start menu and click "Manage" (click OK to the Windows security prompts) and go to Disk Management. If so, what are the properties?

 

[melzy42]

No it does not show up at all. I tried to reformat it on my old computer but was unsuccesful.