[Salvaging old laptop HDD] Doesn't show up in DISK MANAGEMENT

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This is the Hard Drive https://www.amazon.com/Hitachi-Travelstar-2-5-inch-5400RPM-HIT0J15372/dp/B008BMAN2O

I am plugging it into my PC motherboard using a SATA cable and a SATA power cable. I made sure everything is plugged into correctly. When I try to reformat it to use for storage through Disk Management, it does not show up anywhere. I have rebooted twice. My problem is getting it to show up and reformatting it.

What I'm seeing is that most people salvage old laptop hard drives with some sort of external cable they buy from amazon? I'm wondering if its like, impossible to use this as an internal hard drive or something.

Also this is my 3rd drive

 
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So storage wise, I've got Despacito (C:) my main drive and Ratboy (H:) an SSD, then some other drives are System Reserved (E:) and DVD RW DRIVE (D:)
My motherboard is Hewlett-Packard 1494



 

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