My hard drive isn't recognized by Windows after formatting

LekaMiftari

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Jan 12, 2014
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So, yesterday I formatted my PC (it was WIN7 and i re-installed WIN7). Today I started installing some programs and I found a WINXP cd, and since the PC started lagging I decided to format it with WINXP, so I did but then I regret it. So, I again installed WIN7 on it and at the Disk Partition Menu (or something like that) I had 2 partitons to choose from (this had happened before although i have a 320GB Hitachi HDD) but what wasn't right is that my main HDD (97GB) was my Logical HDD not my System HDD. First I got scared of my files losing but then i saw that the 2nd partition was ok, there were 50 GB free of 200 GB that the whole disk had. I chose the 97 GB partiton and after installation, I went to My Computer and saw that windows wasn't displaying my 2nd HDD. But, when I went to Disk Managment there were two HDDs (1st - 97GB 2nd-200GB). Please help me, I need the secondary HDD since there were pics of my family, videos, a lot of programs etc.