Having now installed XP Home I can see the second SATA drive when checking in disk management, the main drive is drive 0, the second drive is drive 1. However it has no route assigned to it eg F:\ or G:\ and when clicking on it the only option available is properties which does not allow me to open the partition etc, can anyone help?

I have backed up the contents of the drive so re-fromating isn't a problem if necessary

Thanks

Right click on the partition on the right and click assign drive letter.

Right click on the partition on the right and click assign drive letter.

I, what he said ..^