Cannot access my second internal hard drive after changing permissions

Changed the permissions by mistake on the second internal hard drive and now windows 7 cannot see it. Going to My Computer Icon, ?>>> Manage >> Disk Management and Try to initialize it but i get the incorrect function error.
How can i get back access to my hard drive.?

Hi Alex,
What is your current situation?
You may check if you could manage the disk through diskpart:
A Description of the Diskpart Command-Line Utility
Under diskpart, enter the following line:
List disk
As Frederik suggested, please check the disk health first.
Best regards
Michael Shao
TechNet Community Support

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