Secondary Hard Drive Listed as Disk 0

I got a new HDD to be my primary drive. I took the drive that came with my computer out, installed the OS on the new drive and then put the old drive into the second hard drive bay. Everything worked well.

I decided to do a clean install instead of going with my crapware recovery disks. Formatted both drives to start over and now my secondary drive doesn't show up in Vista. I went to Disk Management and I can't initialize it.

When I go back into the Windows Anytime Upgrade disk (I use Orev's guide for a clean install and it's always worked), I see my secondary drive is listed as Disk 0 Unallocated Space and my primary drive with the OS is on Disk 1 Partition 1.

I've tried deleting the drives, formatting them. I can't get the secondary to stop being Disk 0.

I even took it out, reinstalled the OS only on my new primary drive. Put the secondary drive in, same issue. It just won't show up like it was in Vista and since I can't initialize it, I'm not sure what to do next.

Any advice?

 

try allocating the space by formatting it or making 2 partitions so windows can see it

when i first did a clean install i made partitions and i forgot to format the second partition. It didnt show up in Vista because it was unallocated space

 

Grr. Tried that and it didn't show.

I then went back in, allocated the space, formatted and it became a primary drive. So now there are 2 primary drives- Disk 0 is in my secondary bay and empty and Disk 1 is my OS and booting okay. When I went into Vista, there was drive 2.

Is this right? I feel like it's not okay to have 2 primary drives. I'm not doing a RAID setup, fwiw. I just want a secondary drive that's for my files.

 

Make the secondary drive as a full extended partition type.