Disk repair issues on my mac pro. grrr.

I have a Mac Pro and am trying to install a 2 TB Hitachi hard drive. I put it in the second slot and when I start my computer it says that it doesn't recognize the disk. When I try to initialize the disk on disk utilities the repair disk and verify disk buttons are greyed out. Where do I go from here? I need the extra space pronto. :-) Thank you.

A new drive comes from the factory unformatted, or formatted for Windows, possibly in a read-only format.
You cannot "Repair" it into existence, you will need to use Partition tab to create a brand new Partition Table and related data structures. Do not use "as currently implemented", deliberately choose "One partition" from the menus. Make certain you are getting GUID Partition Table and Mac OS X Extended, (journaled) Volume.
If the drive is over 2.2TB, stay away from the ERASE tab, as there are bugs in 10.8.4 and later ERASE that have not been resolved at this writing.

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I attempted to perform a utility disk repair and these are the details I received. How do I fix these? Why did I attempt a repair you ask? After I log out and select sleep, my machine goes into high fan speed cooling operation and I cannot get out of it unless I unplug the computer.
Many thanks in advance,
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