Secondary drive wont show up on my laptop.

Hello. I have an HP Pavilion dv7 laptop. I just added an SSD as a primary boot drive for windows 7 (works great). Problem is with the second drive. Before I uninstalled the original SATA drive, I uninstalled windows 7 by installing linux Ubuntu on it and manually partitioned the drive. I now want to make the original SATA drive my secondary in the secondary drive bay. It doesnt show under Start/Computer. I double checked the connections and all is well. The SATA drive had no issues when running as a primary boot drive. Am I supposed to do something in BIOS?
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Leman

If both Macs were running Leopard, you should be able to use Setup Assistant (preferred) or Migration Assistant to transfer your stuff. You can also probably restore selected items, per TM's "Star Wars" display.
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