Unable to access two new hard drives

[Guest]

I have Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installed on a WD Raptor 150gb drive
currently and I just installed two new SATA 500GB Samsung HDs into my machine
and I am unable to even access them. They don't show up on my computer yet
they are both listed in device manager as working properly.

Any idea on why I can't access the hard drives at all? They seem to be
installed and working. I've even disconnected them and reconnected after a
reboot and still the same symptoms occur.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Did you go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management,
highlight Disk Management and initialize, partition, format and assign drive
letters?

 

[David B.]

Have you partitioned and formatted the drives using disk management?

 

[Guest]

That was it. Thank you Cal Bear and David B.

I was looking around for a way to format them etc. But just never knew the
direct path to do it. Still getting used to Vista's interface so its harder
to find things.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

You're welcome.