Question

you just bought a new hard drive for your computer to be used as a secondary hard drive to store all your files after installing a secondary hard drive what two task need to be done through this management in order for the operating system use the hard drive

Answer 1

The harddrive needs to be partitioned, much like partitioning a room, this is were you allocate space to be used, and used by who. Secondly, a file system needs to installed, to do this you "format" the drive with one of the available File systems that windows can read. Typically on windows this is NTFS or fat32 for older system or devices such as USB sticks.