Imac problems loading snow leopard and reformatting hard drive so its fresh

hello im currently running a 2.8 Ghz intel core 2 duo i mac i have apparently downloaded the new snow leopard but my hard drives are all funky i have a 500gb internal and a 1tb external but neither seem to be responding to the new update ?

Does the hard drive appear in finder (on your desktop)? If not, does it appear in Disk Utility (
/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app)? What was the format of the hard drive?

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