Hello. I've just installed Steam and it doesn't see the other drive. The drive is mounted.
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Are You using the Flatpak Version or the .deb Version?
Flatpak version
Maybe this could cause the Issue because Flatpak's have only limited Permissions. You could try it with the .deb Version.
Ok, but how to do it? What's more, I also can't save files on this drive. It seems like I am not allowed to access it.
Remove the Flatpak version, first.
Then in terminal just run
sudo apt install steam
That will install the deb package which has actual file access permissions.
I've done everything you said. However, I still can't add the new drive because I have no permission to this drive - I can't save a single file on the drive.
You can open Disks and check that it is mounted - set to automount if you want to use it for Steam.
What format is the partition you are trying to access?
(NTFS, ext4, etc.)
In Disks, click the partition you want to use, then click the Gear Icon for its Settings.
Select Edit mount options
Disable user session defaults
Under mount options, use
uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022
Click ok and apply changes.
It seems like I got it. The option - "change the owner to yourself" in the disk settings.
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Here I was being all complicated... I think I need to review Gnome Disks. I do not see that option on mine LOL.
Well if it is ntfs formatted then thats a problem too. My installed games got detected from windows but refused to boot in linux. Formatting to ext4 and reinstalling the games fixed it.
My drive was also ntfs formatted but I changed it into ext4. However, I still didn't have access to the drive as well as steam didn't recognize it. Yeah, I did have this option in the disk menu and it just solved the problem. I'm glad and also, I'm quite satisified with the Zorin OS (I've just started using it for real) 
Do you have steam flatpak installed ? If yes please switch to the .deb package. Can be downloaded on the steam site directly.
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