Ubuntu is not recognizing my hard drives.

[EminentSavage]

Alright so i'm trying to install ubuntu 11.04 except it's not recognizing my hard drives. I have two 80gigs plugged in via sata. And neither of them are being recognized by ubuntu. I have tried plugging them in together, and separately, still nothing. I'm getting pretty frustrated. Ubuntu 11.04 just doesn't seem to be working for me. I can run from the liveCD, but i get no unity desktop environment. And now Ubuntu won't even recognize my hard drives. Please, someone help me out.

[khelben1979]

First of all you should check in your BIOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS) if it can find them. In some cases you haveto activate the use of the S-ATA chipset from within BIOS and before you do so, no operating system can detect your hard discs.

The above could be the source of your problem in this.

[EminentSavage]

First of all you should check in your BIOS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS) if it can find them. In some cases you haveto activate the use of the S-ATA chipset from within BIOS and before you do so, no operating system can detect your hard discs.

The above could be the source of your problem in this.
I have been running windows 7 on one of the hard drives for quite some time now. So i know it is recognized. As for the BIOS, i will check and see if they are recognized. Will get back to you.

[collisionystm]

It might see them but just wont mount.

Run the disk utility and check for them.