Help please on vista installation.
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Hey -K-, the reason why you can’t see your second hard disk drive is most likely down to the fact that you have not yet partitioned and then formatted it your other Hard disk drive. 
If you type in "Computer Management" into Vista's start menu search bar and hit enter. Once the computer management window has appeared navigate down to where it said’s Disk Management which is located under the Storage option. Now in the bottom half of that page you should see two disks, Disk 0 (Your drive that has your Windows Installation on) and Disk 1 (Which is empty and should say Unallocated [This is your missing Hard Disk Drive])
Now right click on the black bar and select New Simple Volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard should now pop up, once it does just simply follow the very easy to follow on screen instructions. Once you have completed this process you will then be able to use your second hard disk drive.
Hope that helps.
If you type in "Computer Management" into Vista's start menu search bar and hit enter. Once the computer management window has appeared navigate down to where it said’s Disk Management which is located under the Storage option. Now in the bottom half of that page you should see two disks, Disk 0 (Your drive that has your Windows Installation on) and Disk 1 (Which is empty and should say Unallocated [This is your missing Hard Disk Drive])
Now right click on the black bar and select New Simple Volume. The New Simple Volume Wizard should now pop up, once it does just simply follow the very easy to follow on screen instructions. Once you have completed this process you will then be able to use your second hard disk drive.
Hope that helps.
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