Cannot Get My Powerbook To Work With New Hard Drive

My powerbook (1.67 ghz, 2 gb ram, 80 GB original hdd) was running out of room on the hard drive, so I purchased a WD 250 GB hard drive IDE to replace it. I haven't really done much on my powerbook prior to this, so I wasn't sure exactly if any problems had occured before I did this. But I replaced the drive and tried to boot from a CD and could not do it. I was using a Tiger Retail disc because I can't find my restore discs. I never had any problem reading my discs prior to this, as I have a DVD/RW drive and it has never failed on me. I tried booting from other discs as well and the same problem occured. So after several failed attempts, I connected my powerbook to my ibook through target mode and was able to install the OS on the partition of my powerbook. After completing the install, I was able to access the powerbook partition through the ibook and everything seemed fine. I unplugged the firewire cable and tried to boot my powerbook. The first time I did it, it took me past the white and grey apple screen and stuck on the blue screen, everytime after that, it hung up on the grey and white screen. I tried resetting everything through open firmware and zapping the PRAM, but no change. I tried booting into safe mode and it hung up at the grey and white screen. I was able to boot into single user mode and ran the check utility and everything came up ok. I reconnected the powerbook to the ibook and ran disk utility that way and repaired all permissions. It still has hung up on me. I've been trying to get this to work for almost 8 hours and nothing has worked for me. I'm starting to think its something really serious like a hardware failure. I don't know what version of tiger my powerbook shipped with and I'm not sure if having just 10.4 would cause this issue. I tried removing the added ram and everything as well. I hope someone can give me some things to try and hopefully get it to work. I'm pulling my hair out on this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

One way to know if it is a hardware issue (or something you may have done in the DIY upgrade process, sorry) is to try putting back in the old stock 80GB drive and see if everything works well.
If YES, then your PowerBook is fine and it is your new drive that is faulty. Return it or get a replacement under warranty (if relatively new, maybe you don't need to use the warranty).
If NO, then something has happened during the upgrade process.
That's my first diagnosis.

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