Player on WD2 Black (Dual Drive) unable to access 2nd partition

Host OS : Win 7 Pro (x64)
Guest OS: XP Pro (x86)
I had a regular (mechanical) 500 GB hard drive (2 partitions OS and DATA) with W7P (x64) and VM Player 3.x running XPP for years with no problem.
I could access the 2nd partition through the Guest OS and modify/save files etc on it.
I just got a new WD2 Black Dual Drive (120GB SSD and 1TB mechanical in one unit) so technically there are 2 partitions on the drive.
I copied the entire Player (data) folder from the old drive to the new. I installed the same version of Player 3.x and tried to access the Guest OS - I am able to access it but unable to access network or usb drives (keep getting errors as it boots up also) etc.
So I started from scratch on new drive - installed vmplayer 3.x (even tried every version upto v 7.1.0) and installed Guest OS (XPP) again and now I am able to access the network and usb drives etc.
But when I add the 2nd partition in the settings and start the player I get an error that it cannot start because it cannot power up the scsi (2nd partition) drive and it shuts down.
If I remove the 2nd partition from settings it boots up fine.
I am able to access the 2nd partition in W7P with no problems.
In the Guest OS I am not able to access the 2nd partition.
I called WD Support and they said to call VMWARE support and the problem has nothing to do with the physical drive.
I have updated all the VMware tools (as recommended) but still not able to access the 2nd partition.
In W7P I had to install a "driver" software to access the 2nd partition. I tried to install the same thing in the Guest OS (XPP) it starts to install and then comes back and says it cannot see the 2nd partition.
Any help in this would be greatly appreciated as I would like to keep all the documents/data on the 2nd partition and be able to access the same from both the HOST and GUEST OS's without having to create duplicates or transfer them back and forth between the two.

OK FaiyazR, I think I see your core question.
When you first create a VM the only "disk" it knows is the virtual one.
If you want to access the physical disk or just specific files on the physical disk, you will have to set up a "Shared Folder". Here is one way to do it:
While in VM Player:
Go to the "Player" button(screen upper-left)
Select "Manage"
Select "Virtual Machine Settings"
In the popup window select "Options"
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Click enabled
Click "Map as a network drive in Windows guests"
Click the "Add..." button which brings up the Shared Folder Wizard
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