Hard drives not showing up in Windows

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goodoneian

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Just today I purchased 2 1.5tb Barracudas to use for storage, and installed them into my system. My motherboard/ bios both recognize them, but once I am in Windows they do not show up. I had this same problem with a 2tb Western Digital I just returend (I thought the drive was bad). What I am most confused about, is these 2 drives are replacing an old 500gb Seagate. My mobo and Windows both recognize that still though. If anyone could offer some help that'd be great, this is really frustrating me.

And fwiw, I am running Windows 7 64 bit, 4 gigs of ram, 2 1tb Seagates running striped in RAID, with an Evga 780i board.
 
You need to initialize the drives and partition/format them under the Disk Management utility.

Right click My Computer>Manage. Then in the left hand pane, select disk management. Right click the new drives and format them.
 
Okay cool, I got to the new drives and see that they are recognized, but I can't find an option to format them? They also will not show up on the drive list window
 
Was the 500G your only drive?

And you're positive you're on the window that looks like this:

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EDIT:

I'm not familiar with RAID so I'm not quite sure how exactly to go about this.I know what it is and how it works, but i don't know anything about configuring it or anything like that.
 
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No, it was not my only drive; it was my storage drive. my OS is installed on the two Seagates.

And yes that is the window. Where your "Disk 1" is empty, it shows my two drives (also in raid) as 2794 gigs. However, it is not listed under the "Volume" tab where the C drive is
 
goodoneian said:
No, it was not my only drive; it was my storage drive. my OS is installed on the two Seagates.

And yes that is the window. Where your "Disk 1" is empty, it shows my two drives (also in raid) as 2794 gigs. However, it is not listed under the "Volume" tab where the C drive is
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Try right-clicking on Disk 1.
 
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That is what the window looks like

I would assume I need to get the Disk 1 under the volume tab where C and System reserve are?
 
You should be able to right click on the Unallocated space, initialize it, and format it.
 
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