Adding a 80GB hard drive to a running XP home machine

Hi, Can anyone help me out?
I had a 6GB hard drive crash a few months ago, it was a
slave to a 40Gb, which is the main windows drive. I had an
idea that if I put the 6 gig drive onto the second IDe
channel it may think it was a master..Success! it did! so
I bought a 80gig drive, set it as slave to the primary
IDE and fired it all up intending to copy the Data from
the 6gig to the new 80gig drive..
But...
XP does not seem to see the 80gig drive!
it is present in the hardware manager, and returns are
working properly message when interogated..but Explorer
cant find it!
I assume from what I have read that Explorer should just
find it and format it automatically assighning the next
available drive letter. is it just too big?

Have you tried formating the drive yourself?

The easiest way to do this is.

Right click on my computer, choose manage.
Choose disk management under Storage.
Locate the new disk you added, right click, format.

There may be another step here, as I can't perform the
action myself, but that should do the trick.

You may have to make the partition active, available from
the right click menu, but I'm not sure if that step is needed.

Arnado