Second HDD not showing

[huntingbears]

Hi,
I'm running Vista home basic SP1 32bit

I had to reinstall windows because of a blaster worm. I have 2 HDD's, C & D, that were working before the reinstal, now only C is working.
Looking in computer management, C is disk 1, and D is disk 0. D (now without a name) is split into healthy EISA configuration which is the 127.99GB which has all my stuff on, and an unallocated 61.93GB which I formated and allocated to D by right clicking on (which I've now deleted) but when I right click on the other partition it only gives me option for 'help'

How can I get this partition back? I think one of the drives is SATA and one is IDE for some reason though not completely sure, (i know one is a maxtor) I went into bios but couldn't see the disk. Is it a problem with slave and master? I don't understand why it dosnt just work since i didnt change anything during the reinstall

I have attached a screenshot

any help would be great thanks

 

[derekimo]

Welcome to the forum,

Lets see if it shows up after giving it a letter, #6 in this tutorial http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/114767-drive-letter-add-change-remove.html

will show you how, let us know how that turns out for you.

 

[huntingbears]

hi, thanks for the reply, i can right click on the side which says 61.93 gb and assign it a letter D and that works, but when i try to click on the left side it only gives me the option 'help' so i cant assign it a letter or format it or anything. ive got a feeling windows is installed on the wrong drive because the second drive says it is primary

 

[derekimo]

hi, thanks for the reply, i can right click on the side which says 61.93 gb and assign it a letter D and that works, but when i try to click on the left side it only gives me the option 'help' so i cant assign it a letter or format it or anything. ive got a feeling windows is installed on the wrong drive because the second drive says it is primary

Sorry for not getting back to you right away,

I've asked for some more help on this.

 

[theog]

When you reinstalled did you remove the IDE HD first, than reinstalled OS?
IDE HD will boot first.

 

[huntingbears]

I took out the second HDD drive, the maxtor one, and it turns out windows was installed on the correct drive. but both were plugged in during the reinstall.

 

[theog]

If you unplug the IDE HD, will the PC boot to Windows?