SATA2 Drives not showing plz help

[kudz]

Hi There,

iv installed 2 sata2 Seagate Barracuda 500GB drives in my pc and i cant see them on vista x64.
i have checked and they are showing on the BIOS and are also showing in the controlpanel device manager. this says they are working fine

have i done something wrong when putting them in?

spec
Asus Striker Extreme with latest BIOS update
Coolermaster M630 power
Vista x64

thanks in advance
John

 

[kudz]

its sorted now

i had to go into disk management and create a partition andformat

thanks

 

[myriad46]

Are these brand new drives? If so, I have had to go into storage management (Right-click on My Computer and select manage; click through the options on the right for storage...etc)

You'll eventually get a graphical list (bar chart) of all of the drives attached to the system. If they are unformatted, even before you can format them, you'll need to right click on the drive letter area of the drive (far left; not the part that shows the partition info) and choose to initialize it. Sorry if the details are fuzzy, I am at work and can't pull up that option (not an admin). I will double check when I go home and update.

Hope that helps.

 

[jeteryankees22]

go to computer management...and enable the drive

 

[kudz]

cheers for the replies

 

[kudz]

i also notice there is a humming noise coming from the case , wasnt there before installing the hdd's, its a hum that gets louder and the quieter and keeps repeating this

 

[kudz]

sorry for all the questions am new to all this

my drives say there is a transfer rate of 300MB/s but i get no more than 25MB/s transferring between drives. there are both SATA II..

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=334246
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=329661&view=detailed#ProductTabs

thanks