Resolved [2nd hard drive shows in BIOS, but not in Explorer]

I installed a new hard drive a few days ago. Before doing so, I copied my main hard drive to my second hard drive. Now when I go to my computer the second hard drive is not showing. I went into bios and it is showing there. How do I get this hard drive visible so that I can retrieve some info from it?

Thanks,
Russ

 

No I changed the main hard drive and left the second as it was and copied everything from the old hard drive to it. Of course I formatted it before copying to it. I did it this way- xcopy c:\*.* e:\/c/h/e/k/r I watched the files copying and have done the same thing in the past.

Russ

 

Apparently nobody here has the answer to this, so I did some searching and found the answer below in another forum which did work. So I thought I would post it here for others future reference.

The problem may be you're not looking in just the right spot . Click Start, RIGHT-click My Computer in the window, then click on Manage from the menu. In the new Computer Management window expand "Storage" if necessary and click on Disk Management. I expect OP (damaster) and joses both have got this far. Now, examine the TWO right-hand panes. The upper one shows you only the devices Windows already knows how to use. The lower one, which SCROLLS, also shows you other devices Windows does not yet understand. Your new disk should be here with no letter name and no info. RIGHT-click on it and, from the menu, choose to Partition the drive. You'll have a choice of how big it should be and most likely want to use all the drive in one volume. (You can use only part of the space. If you do, when you are finished come back here and find the remainder shown as "Unallocated Space ". You can create a second Partition or more in it if you want.) For this first Partition, make it the Primary or Active Partition, and NOT bootable because this drive is for data only - you already have a boot drive. When all the choices are made, go ahead with the Partition operation.

 

Well, this did work to be able to see the drive, but it is empty. Do not know what happened to all the info I transferred to it from c drive. I have done this in the past and it worked perfectly.