Reinstalling Windows

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I recently reinstalled Windows XP Home on my computer. I have 2 40 gig hard drives and I saved all my important information onto my second hard drive that wasn't being messed with. I formatted the first hard drive and reinstalled Windows on it. My Computer only recognizes the first hard drive containing Windows and the 32 MB partition it made me reformat on the second hard drive. When you boot off the Windows CD, it sees the 38.something GIG partition on the second hard drive and that 10 GIG is being used, so naturally I do not want to delete that partition and lose my info on it that I need. Is there something I need to do in order to get Windows to recognize that this hard drive in NTFS format does exist and access the info off it? Thanks for your help.
 
I have already right-clicked onto My Computer and gone into Manage. When I click on Disk Management, Widnows has stated that my boot drive is on Disk 1. It also says that my System partition is the 31 MB partition on Disk 0, which is my slave drive. I don't know how Windows got this confused but because it did, I am unable to download SP1. I plan to reinstall Windows with the slave HD unplugged so it won't confuse that part, but I am still stuck with the rest of Disk 0. Windows knows it is NTFS format with 28some GIG free of 38some GIG total. It says it's "Healthy (Unknown Partition)". The only thing I can do to this is Delete Partition and Help. It seems that I have lost the partition table possibly. Is there any program that I can use to recover the data of the Unknown Partition or recover the partition table? I do not have a copy of what the table looked like prior to this so I cannot fix it in that way. Thanks for your help!
 
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