Help, new HDDs not recognised!

[chris watton]

Have just installed 2x250 Samsung Spinpoint 250gb SATA hard drives in my PC. I have 2x74GB Raptors set up in RAID0, but wanted to replace my older IDE drives with the new SATA drives. I have set up everything correctly, and have even checked each jumper config, just to make sure, but nothing!
The drives show on boot, and they shpw in the device manager, but they do not show on 'My Computer'
I realise they probably need formatting, but if I can't see them on my PC, how can I?
Do I need to download any additional drivers for these drives?

Cheers

Chris

[Plotloss]

Disk Manager - Initialize [sic]

They should pop up then...

[chris watton]

Plotloss said:

Disk Manager - Initialize [sic]

They should pop up then...

Cheers, never thought of that! Where abouts can I find the disk manager? (I have looked, but can't find it!, what an idiot!)

[Plotloss]

Either Start>Run>compmgmt.msc

Or right click my computer and select manager

Its in the tree on the left...

[chris watton]

Matt, Thank you, it worked! Never had to do this before with any new HDD I have installed - but never had a Samsung before either!

(My wireless network is up and running, btw!)

[Plotloss]

I was caught the first time too with it, bloody thing...

Cool about the wifi, smart little boxes arent they?

[chris watton]

Plotloss said:

I was caught the first time too with it, bloody thing...

Cool about the wifi, smart little boxes arent they?

All sorted!

Oh yes, those ATA to SATA adapters, for my IDE HDDs did not work at all! System hangs, taking over 10 mins to boot, and then nothing recognised, even in disk manager,,, binned 'em!