I wasnt sure if a SATA drive and an IDE Drive could work together. I may buy a SATA and use it just as my slave to keep music, porn, ect. on and I wanted to know if it worked or not. I.E. I can move stuff easily from one drive to another and they dont get angry and try to kill each other.

As long as your OS recognizes/has a driver for the controller, a drive is a drive is a drive, be it a SATA, IDE, Firewire, or USB drive.

SATA aren't assigned master / slave, since there is only one drive per port. You still have to jumper your PATA drives, but SATA you just plug in, and you're good to go. You shouldn't have any conflicts between the two, unless something is seriously wrong with your motherboard or controller.

I got my new SATA drive (and its pretty)! I can get to it and see its properties from going to the properties of another piece of hardware, but its not showing up in My Computer with my other hard drive and my DVD/CD burners. Anyone have any ideas?

have you formatted it yet?

use the disk it came with to set it up properly

I bought it from New Egg, and it didnt come with anything. Only the hard drive. no cable (had one from my mother board), no jumper, and no disk.

I cant acess it to format it, even though it should already be clean since I bought it brand new from New Egg.

Right click My Computer -> manage -> select "Disk Management" under Storage -> Look through the lists of disks (disk 0, disk 1, ... , disk n) for one that is unformatted -> Format that sucker and give it a letter.

Edit: If this is the first time you've used SATA, make sure you do have the SATA drivers for your motherboard installed, if Windows didn't already provide them. Check out the device manager for any yellow exclamation points.

Thank you Fattybuddha worked great!