Any Solutions to the 320gb WD harddrive and upgrading to SL?

Really need a solution to the 320wd hdd problem. I have one mac and really dont want to take the harddrive out and do it that way. Plus in the future i dont this hassle again when i do fresh installs.
For people that dont know the problem, everyone with a Western Digital HDD when upgrading to snow leopard cant see there hdd when asked to select drive to install to. We had no problem with 10.4 or 10.5 so why now? I think apple should assist in some way as WD our a respected company and used by many apple users. In experience there hdd's are the best out there.
What i am asking for is a practical way to upgrade to Snow Leopard, not a long winded work around that mean i have to get my screw driver out every time i fancy a fresh install!

Can you do a favor for us? Open up Disk Utility and click on your WD drive - NOT the name of your computer hard drive, but the technical name (probably WB3200....). Near the bottom of the DU screen, you'll see some information about your drive. One of these should be called "Partition Map Scheme" - does yours read GUID Partition Table? If so, then you have some other hardware issue. If it reads anything besides GUID, then that's likely to be the problem.

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