Disk hard online, but not visible in Windows Explorer

Hi guys, I need a little help.

Today, I installed an old 80 GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 PATA hard drive on my other PC, a Dell Inspiron 530, as a second HDD. I had to order new parts to connect actually upward from the power supply and motherboard SATA and IDE connections are not, but all those who are working very well.

My problem is that this Maxtor drive does not appear in Windows Explorer. BIOS, see Device Manager it disk management he sees (and even said it's online). Just not Windows Explorer.

In disk management, it is not a drive letter assigned to it, and when I right click on the disk partitions, anything but 'Delete the Volume' and 'Help' are grayed out. (Screenshot here: http://i39.tinypic.com/2ujpbeo.png)

I'm a bit stumped, it's almost like I can't use the drive at all. Any ideas?

Here's some more information about the system:

OS: Windows Vista editions Home Premium (Build 6002, Service Pack 2)

BIOS: Phoenix AwardBIOS review 1.0.18

Motherboard: Foxconn G33M02

CPU: Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2140 1.6gHz

Memory: 3072 MB DDR2 SDRAM

First HARD drive: 250 GB Hitachi SATA sister

HARD drive secondary: 80 GB Maxtor Diamondmax 10 PATA (with jumper set to "Master DS")

GPU: ASUS EAH4670

And I should add, just in case... This is PATA to SATA card, I use the drive: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/320759737706?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT & _trksid = p3984.m1439.l2649

And I just use a SATA to Molex cable I found to convert the power.

Thank you

Hello

Thanks for this info. I looked more into filesystems and it turns out that the disc was either FAT or NTFS - it was EXT2 which is a Linux file system. I found this by starting Ubuntu that supports multiple file systems.

I didn't format it had data on personal, but I found an EXT2 driver and can now browse the Windows hard disk.

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