2nd SATA HDD Not Initialized & no drive assigned

Installed on a new Lenovo system that had Win 7 - digital upgrade to Win 8 Pro
When I go into Disk Management I see the Maxtor HDD, but it doesn't have a drive letter assigned and is not initialized. I fixed drive letters on DVD and removable to other letters as I know the Maxtor was originally assigned as "D"
Right clicking does not give me the option to assign a letter, nor can I initialize as its greyed out. My only options on the Disk 1 section is =
Offline
Properties
Help
Tried reboot and looking at BIOS settings. This drive had no issues when I installed it into the new system under Win 7

Hi,
Please try to use diskpart command to online this disk and assign drive letter:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415
Alex Zhao
TechNet Community Support

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