You just brought a new hard drive for your computer. you plan to use this as a secondary hard drive to store all your school files. once installed, what needs to be done to the drive and what do these two tasks do?

Assuming this is only and external hard drive and there is no operating system installed on it, first, if you can't seem to access the drive, format it to a format your computer should be able to read. Then, I'd recommend organizing everything. Add folders for each class you take, and inside those add folders for actual homework and one for projects. You can add a miscellaneous folder if you'd like, for any extra files you might need to use.