Why won't my Macbook Pro read the SSD drive when I install it?

When I installed my new Kingston SSD drive and tried to re install Mac OS Snow Leopard from the disk,  it did not read or see the SSD drive.  I had to re install the old HD and continue using that.  Any ideas?
I have a MacBook Pro 13 inch Model mid 2009 running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1 (11B26)
It is a Kingston 64gb SSDnow SNVP325-S2/64GB

I have similar situation but (see also my other post) am not able to boot up from Snow Leopard installer disk (keep getting kernel panic, even on other laptops trying to boot on same Snow Leopard installer disk).
Any ideas on how to get the SSD formatted or how to avoid kernel panic with my Snow Leopard installer ?

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