hello, i just purchased a 120 gb ssd and installed windows 7 64 bit on my computer. I had a sata drive before with windows 7 64 bit too. Now that i want to make the sata my slave drive it does not show up in my computer. I have to say that i wanted to clean the sata drive and uninstall windows 7 and just use it for storage, so what i did was to insert my windows 7 disc and i deleted the operating system from there and then i quit the installation. is there anything i can do to make my sata drive appear in my computer and use it as a storage/application drive?

I already tried to connect both drives with only one sata cable that has connection for master and slave but it does not work and it does not work either with 2 separate cables.

What computer/mobo model?
SATA drives don't use a Master/Slave designation. They are connected to channels (0,1, etc.). I can't quite imagine what cable you found that has two SATA connectors.
Make sure the relevant channels are enabled in the BIOS.

i have a p6t deluxe v2, i haven't updated the bios because it's too complicated for me but when i go to bios the hard drive is enabled and in windows disk management it does show it but it's unallocated. The only options when i right click i get are new simple volume,Convert to dynamic disk,convert to GPT disk,and offline. it doesn't let me change the letter either. thanks!

HARD DRIVE SAYS: location 1 (Channel 0, Target 1, Lun 0)

Disk 1
Type: Basic
Status: Online
partition style: Master Boot Record

Create a new simple disk and format it.

so is it ok if i just choose the new simple volume and after it's done will it give me the option to format it?

Yes, once you've set the partition you'll have the option to format it.

It worked, thanks a lot guys, it's nice to know there's experienced people here!!!