Disk drive is not recognized

This is a post to possibly save others some unnecessary gray hair. I
installed a new SATA drive in a Dell GX160 running XP Pro. I edited the
bios to enable the drive (I thought), hooked up the drive, and no
matter what I did I could not get the system to recognize this drive,
as evidenced by going to Disk Management in the Administration section
of the Control Panel.

I finally noticed that 4 SATA drives were listed in the bios (my C:
drive was taken by Drive 0). I had enabled the next drive in the list.
I found out that the system was looking for the 3rd drive in the list,
not the second.

Here's the punch line. If you install a new drive in a similar system,
enable ALL of the drives in the bios of that type (i.e., SATA or IDE
ATA) and let the system find the one it is looking for. Then, re-enter
the bios and disable the drives that it could not find.

Saves a lot of time and fruatration.

wizard_chef