Solved Can't see second Hard drive after using System Image Recovery

Tomcat31

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I have two old physical Seagate hard drives set up in the following configuration

C: - 160Gb used for the OS and program files
E: - 240Gb used for data storage

I want to replace the drive with the OS on with a new Western Digital hard drive (of the same size) as it's starting to get noisy and taking a while to access. So I figured the easiest way would be to use the System Image tool in Windows 7 and restore it.

I created the image of my 'C drive' onto an external hard drive, created the recovery disk and managed to restore the image onto the new hard drive. All has worked well except for I can't see the second hard drive that has all my data on it.

Any ideas where I may be going wrong?
 

My Computer My Computer

At a glance

Windows 7 Professional 64bitAMD Phenom II x4 9554Gb Corsair XMS3 (2x 2gb)Onboard
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Built
OS
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II x4 955
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UDH3 rev 2.2
Memory
4Gb Corsair XMS3 (2x 2gb)
Graphics Card(s)
Onboard
Sound Card
Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality Titanium edition
Hard Drives
Western Digital 160Gb
Seagate 260Gb
PSU
Corsair AX750 Gold
Cooling
Stock
Keyboard
Logitech G11
Mouse
Razer Copperhead Blue
Internet Speed
30Meg
Fixed it, It turns out there was something wrong with the Master Boot Record. Windows repair picked it up and fixed the issue. I can now see both drives again :D
 

My Computer My Computer

At a glance

Windows 7 Professional 64bitAMD Phenom II x4 9554Gb Corsair XMS3 (2x 2gb)Onboard
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Home Built
OS
Windows 7 Professional 64bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II x4 955
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-880GA-UDH3 rev 2.2
Memory
4Gb Corsair XMS3 (2x 2gb)
Graphics Card(s)
Onboard
Sound Card
Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality Titanium edition
Hard Drives
Western Digital 160Gb
Seagate 260Gb
PSU
Corsair AX750 Gold
Cooling
Stock
Keyboard
Logitech G11
Mouse
Razer Copperhead Blue
Internet Speed
30Meg
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