Lost my HDD?

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I have just reinstalled windows to my primary SATA drive, i do however have
an old IDE drive as well. My last installation (as done far too late last
night) was spread across the drives with the secondary having boot
information on it. This was a left over from problems I have with my MBR
which required me to swap the primary and secondary drives to get anywhere.
Realising the future problems this could cause and trying to format the
cluttered secondary drive that had become C: (but didn't really have windows
on it) i formatted the drive from XP setup. I then proceeded to install
windows XP onto what should have been C: all along. This worked fine and on
running windows for the first time the primary drive was assigned C:. However
my secondary drive does not show up in 'my computer' but does in bios loading
screen, device manager and under 'hardware' when i click properties on the C:
drive. I seem to have lost it to explorer but it is clearly there and
working. Does it just need a drive letter assigning to it? How do I do this?
I have been looking at command prompt but have had no luck.
 
Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
click on Disk Management. It should appear on the right hand side of the
screen from where you can assign it a drive letter.
 
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