Trouble installing 10.4 on a new hard drive

My hard drive died, so I'm trying to install 10.4 on a new hard drive. I'm using the same disk that came with my laptop. I get as far as "select a destination" and the hard drive doesn't show up to choose. I saw another post that suggested partitioning the hard drive first, so I did that, and still no luck. Can anyone help?

Thanks for the welcome, and for the attempt to help. I'm starting to wonder if I got a bum replacement hard drive? I've just restarted twice, it now takes FOREVER for the apple and the little spinny thing to show up when I start up and hold down the C key, and now when I go to disk utility the hard drive doesn't show up in the list of choices at all. Do you think it's worth pulling out the hard drive and sticking it back in again? I have no idea if that will make any difference?

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