The reactivation of a hard drive after disable it in Device Manager

I have 2 hard drives on my PC - a to start the operating system and run all software, one for storage. The storage disk has had problems lately, so I went into Device Manager, click right on the second disk (storage) and disabled. After the restart I can not access my user account because I had created a symbolic link from the boot drive-> disk storage for the users folder (to save space on the startup disk that the folder users slowly collected data more and more).

How can I reactivate the storage drive to behave as it did before I disabled it in the Device Manager if I can't access my user account? I tried logging in a guest account, but apparently this is not possible either.
The storage disk still appears in the BIOS, so I know that it is recognized. If only I could enable it once again everything as it was before I disabled it. Then the users folder would be intact and in the appropriate space for the operating system to recognize.
I can configure the BIOS to boot from the CD - DVD (with the Windows CD in the drive) drive to attempt a repair of the BONE, but I'm not sure that this is the most effective way to preserve data in the users folder, but also to keep the settings I had set up and was happy with before. Any suggestions?

Thank you very much for the help so far, Palcouk. However, this thread is a little off topic, and I found a solution to the problem I posted initially on then let me explain what I did.

In my case, because I had two hard drives and disabled the drive only hard which is used for storage (as opposed to start the OS and various software to run) and because the disc hard disabled was which contained the record real \Users\, I fell on this particular issue. In these circumstances, I was able to start Windows, but not able to connect to my main user profile because its preferences were inaccessible to the disabled drive. To resolve this problem, I had to go through the following:
1 - restart in Mode safe mode with command prompt
2 activate the administrator user profile by entering the following at the command prompt: "net user administrator / Active: Yes"-after entering, I received confirmation in the command prompt window that he had executed properly
3 restart normally
4. When you select a user profile with which I could connect, I chose 'Another user' (or something similar, I don't remember exactly what appeared) and the entry "Administrator" as the user name, no password. Press enter
5. new user profile preferences were created and recorded, including information Office
6 - in the control panel Device Manager to navigate, find the hard drive of people with disabilities. Right click and click on Enable
7. I followed the instructions in the link given to edit the Windows registry files relating to user (method 1) profiles: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947215
After you restart normally, I was able to connect to my main and all user profile preferences, I had before turning off my hard drive were still there.
Another question for Palcouk, if you're still with me: if I got 2 hard drives in the PC (in addition to the primary boot SSD) and 1 HARD drive functioned as the active storage with \Users\ files disk, and the other HARD drive worked like a mirror image of the first HARD drive (think raid 0-1), who would work as I wanted in the previous post I did? The only difference is using the second HDD as an exact copy of the first HARD drive instead of using as a place to put the image of Windows backup system.

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