Qosmio X500 - not recognising 2nd Hard Drive

Hi there
I had performed a clean installation of Window 7 Home Premium (64 bit) and accidentally formated both Hard Drive using Window Custom Installation.
Windows installation went OK but the system is not reconising the 2nd Hard Drive.
Can someone please help and advise what I should do to rectify this.
Thanks a lot.
Marwon

Thanks for the response.
I couldn't locate "Computer Manaement". I didnt't reload all Toshiba Ultility software and drivers.
But I can see the 2nd HDD using "System Informaton" /"System Summary" / "Component".
Drivers I'd loaded since clean installation are:
- Intel Chipset SW Installation Utility 9.9.9.10.20
- Intel Management Engine Interface 6.0.0.1184
- NVidia Display Driver
- Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver 1.0.2.1002
- O2 Card Reader Controller 2.0.24.D
- Conexant Audio Driver
- Wireless Lan Driver
- Synaptics Touch Pad Driver 14.0.12.0
- Toshiba HDD Protection 2.2.03
- Atheros Lan Driver 1.0.0.29
- HDMI Control Manager 2.0.0.364
- Toshiba Disc Creater
- Toshiba DVD Player
- Toshiba HW Setup Utility
- Win DVD BD V8 fir Toshiba
I didn't load all the utilities and drivers hoping the this will speed up the computer start up time. Am I missing something or doing something incorrect here?
Thanks.

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