dell dimension hard drives

[eddiewa]

I have just been given a S/H Dell Dimension 4500 computer and I notice that this has two hard drives.

My question is how to access these two hard drives because only one the c: appears to be accessible.

one drive is a Maxtor 37 GB with unused and the other is WDC with189GB unused and it is this second drive that I cannot access..............

I guess this is quite a simple question but I don't want to change too many settings.

Obviously it would be great to use all that space....................

The operating system is Windows XP

[patio]

Does it boot to XP ? ?
If so right click My Computer and select Manage...then Disk Management...
Find the WD drive )probably D: ) and right click it and select Properties...
Report back with your findings.

It may just be empty.

[soybean]

... the other is WDC with189GB unused and it is this second drive that I cannot access..............

If you can't access it, how do you know how much unused space is on it?