Hard Drive problems

I have attached a Maxtor 80Gb drive to a PC. When I boot up, the BIOS recognizes it and when XP loads, I can see the drive when I click on My Computer. When I click on the drive, however, I get a message that says “incorrect parameter” and I am not able to go further. This is not the boot drive, rather, it is an extra data drive.

What does this message indicate? Is there a way around it?