Adding another hard drive to Windows 7

Adding another hard drive to Windows 7 My PC was running Ubuntu 9.10 with two hard drives installed. I recently installed Windows 7 and I have trouble accessing the content on the secondary hard drive. The Win7 recognizes both hard drives, as I can see the second hard drive on the disk management screen, but the second hard drive doesn't show up under the "My Computer" screen.
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"You mean Ubuntu 9.04, I presume.

Ubuntu probably formatted the other drive using the ext3 or ext4 file system. Windows can't read those filesystems, so it can't see any files stored on the second drive. If you need access to those files without booting into Ubuntu, you can do several things. The easiest might be to install the LTOOLS or an alternative, as described in this Linux Journal article.

If you never plan to use Linux again, you can copy all the data somewhere, then repartition and reformat the drive to NTFS."