Hard drive not recognized by XP

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I've got 3 harddrives: 1 Raptor, and 2 750GB secondary drives. They're all SATA. They're all hooked up properly via SATA cables to the motherboard and are powered correctly via cables to the power supply. However, my computer (running XP SP3) only recognizes the 1 Raptor and 1 of the 750GB secondaries. I just installed the 750GB secondary that isnt being recognized. All three harddrives are recognized in BIOS. Can anyone think of what the problem might be?
 
Have you checked Disk Management?

Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.

Does the drive show up in there?
 
Yeah it does show up there. It's labeled as Disk 0, there's a Red circle with a white line through it over the icon, it says "Unknown" and "Not Initialized" and "Unallocated". What should I do?
 
Right click and try "format" , use NTFS if it asks you (as opposed to FAT32).

if that doesnt work, report back with the error message you recieve
 
I right click, but there's no format option. Harddrive still doesnt show up in My Computer, but in the compmgmt.msc thing I've got the options of "Convert to Dynamic Disk" or "New Partition".
 
You need to do "New Partition." You need to have a partition to format before you can format anything.
 
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