2nd hard drive appearing is not in my computer

My 2nd hard drive is not appearing in my computer.  The hard drive was a slave, that I took from my old xp machine after it crashed.  I had installed in my new vista machine before and it worked, but then I had to reinstall the operating system and since then he did not appear.  I double checked to make sure, it has been defined as a slave drive and it is.  It appears in the Bios, Device Manager and in disk management, but not in my computer.  Nothing is appearing as unallocated in disk management and the player said his good health.  In the Device Manager, it says the device is working properly.  I tried to give him just a drive letter in the management of records, but when I right click on it the only option I have is help.  I also tried to update the drivers, he says that they are up-to-date.  I tried deactivation and activation of the hard drive.  I even tried to uninstall.  When I rebooted, it detects and reinstalled the drivers, but I still can't get it to appear in my computer.

Alw179,

so I assume you are using the new Windows 7 for this post.

Proposal of John Doe has worked for me. This is how do you a little more in detail:

step 1: Windows 'Start menu '.

Step 2: SPECIFY the, "disk management" in the box "search programs and files" at the botom

step 3 find and RIGHT click on the hard drive in the list that program shows.

step 4: select 'Change Drive Letter and paths '.

step 5: click Add and make sure that ASSIGN it THE FOLLOWING DRIVE LETTER: bubble is selected and then use the drop-down menu to select a drive letter, do not use it.

step 5: click OK

step 6: complete, you should have something pop up indicates that your hard drive is available to show.

I hope this helps.

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