You just bought a new hard drive for your computer. you plan to use this as a secondary hard drive to store all your uma files .once installed, what needs to be done ro the drive and what do those tasks do

The drive should be partitioned, mostly to wipe out any hidden partitions the manufacturer put on it.  Then each partition needs a file system put on it.

Partitioning divides up a drive into sections that are logically separate.  Putting a file system on a partition sets up the space of the partition so that a computer can use the space.