Vista does not see my 2nd HD PATA

I have a Vista machine professional that I try to install a second HD.  I checked in the BIOS and we see here.  I checked in disk management, and one sees there.

Disk Management displays the disk as a 232,88 GB drive; Healthy (Primary Partition, Active)

It does not assign a letter and do not assign a drive letter.  I can not format or access it somehow.  What can I do to fix this?

Windows Vista Business Edition
AMD Athlon XP 2000 1.66 GHz
1 GB OF RAM
32 bit OS

Thanks for your help.

Hello TANorcross,

Thanks for posting on the Microsoft answers Community Forum.

Generally what happens when you have other drives (thumb of dvd - rom, cd-rom, drives and other usb devices, network drives mapped,... etc.) and have all the drive letters.  If you exceed a certain letter system will see the new drive in disk management, but cannot attribute a letter from him, because you have exceeded the limit in which the system wants to assign letters to a hard drive.

For example, if you have a hard drive and it is assigned to C:, and you have other drives and they list D:, E: and F:.  When you add the new hard drive it are assigned to a drive letter and so you can not access it.  To remedy this, the simplest method is to assign what is the d: drive to another letter.  The letter is okay as long as the system don't mind setting a DVD reader for example letter.  Once you do that it should automatically assign the letter D: for the hard drive again on restart.  If this isn't the case, you should be able to manually assign since this letter is now available.

Please meet results

Thank you
Jonathan

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