How to increase Hard Drive in HP Pavallion 8851 Desktop PC

Hello, I am using one of HP desktop Pavallion 8851, In this Desktop installed 20 GB Hard drive by defult. I want to increase with 40 GB ATA (IDE) Hard drive. I have facing problem with this, Hard Drive detect in BIOS but OS not open. Only Blink cursor windows not running.
Please help how to 40 GB Hard drive working with this desktop.

let me ask some informaiton is both hard drives installed???
which hard drive has the os???
does windows load when the other hard drives is unpluged???

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