I have a wndows XP professional parallels VM. I ran out of space so I added a 2GB drive. It shows up when I look at it in prior to starting the parallel drive. When I look in windows explorer, my drive d: is the CD drive. There is no second hard drive shown as visible to windows explorer. at the bottom of the VM, I am showing to hard drives when I have parallels in window mode. I have attached a screenshot.
I use all myMac drives as shared folders and they have been allocated letters in Windows Explorers play with PD menu >>Devices >> shared folders >> add - just a guess Hugh W