Access Denied on hard drive

Hello folks,
I am running Vista Home premium 32. I recently reinstalled my vista operating system and now my 2nd internal hard drive reads Access Denied. If I turn off UAC I can get access to the files, but when I turn it back on it goes back to saying access denied. Does anybody know how to make this problem go away? At worst case, would reformatting the drive restore to normal? Thanks so much if you can help.

Its about security and taking ownership of the drive contents, as by default all files are assigned the rights of the previous install, this means your current install has no rights to read the files on the 2nd drive.

Im sure there was a thread somewhere on it, i did do a quick guide for XP but im not sure if the same procedure applies to Vista, here's the link anyway http://homepage.ntlworld.com/judslat/rights/

regards

Thanks for the reply. I've tried that already to no avail.