XP can't see my secondary hard drive

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Andrew, it didn't work. When I first booted from the CD,
it told me that my computer was already in the middle of
an upgrade, which was from my first attempt to upgrade
the 40 gig from Win98SE. I aborted that and did an F10 to
start a new install. That brought me to the menu screen
that let me enter "Repair". There was no command
to "convert" in the list. I used the "map" command and
found out that the system showed my drive D (40 gig) as
drive "F", which in reality is my DVD Rom. It showed it
to be a legitimate FAT32 partition. In Disk Management,
the 40 gig is listed, but assigned no drive letter. My 80
gig "C" drive is listed as "Healthy (System)", and the 40
gig drive is listed as "Healthy (Active)", and the only
option that is not greyed out, is to delete the
partition, but I still have no ability to convert or
initialize the 40 gig, not even from a DOS prompt. It
told me that I gave it an invalid drive "D"
specification. When I tried to convert it as drive "F".
which the "Map" command in "repair" thought it was, the
system recognised that drive F was a DVD Rom, and told
me it could not convert a volumn on that drive. Windows
XP continues to see the drive, but can't access it, not
even to show me the properties.
 
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