G3 beige minitower doesn't see HDD

I just tried putting a new hard 80GB unformatted drive into a Beige G3 minitower (300Mhz) whose original HDD failed long, long ago. The G3 itself had not been booted in nearly two years.
Everything about the machine seems to be working fine--the floppy drive, the CD drive, etc., but the machine does not see the hard drive. (I'm able to boot the machine using the original system CD.)
Everything is hooked up properly.
Any advice for me out there?
Cheers,
GeeKay

Tina...
Here's how I did it.
1) With the new 80 GB hard drive installed in the Beige G3, I partitioned it to have one 8 GB partition and a second partition taking up the remainder of the space.
2) I then installed OS 9.2 onto the larger partition.
3) I removed the hard drive from the machine and put it into an external Firewire enclosure.
4) I hooked the external enclosure up to a Mac Mini, and installed Tiger from a DVD installation disc (a "generic" Tiger disc that I bought from the Apple Store, not the Mini-specific Tiger DVD that came with that machine) onto the external drive's 8 GB partition.
5) I removed the external drive from the Firewire enclosure, returned the drive to the Beige G3, and then booted into 9.2
6) Using Xpostfacto 4 in 9.2, I used the "install everything" option from the pull-down menu to place the proper boot kernel/extensions/etc onto the OSX partition. I was then able to boot the machine into Tiger. Worked like a charm!
I should note that I originally tried to install OSX (using the same external FW enclosure/Mac Mini method described above) onto a single partition. Xpostfacto indicates that the new version (4) gets around the 8 GB limitation on Old World machines, but I didn't have any success that way. Just couldn't get my Beige to boot at all. That's when I decided to go with the tried and trusted 8 GB partition.
In any case, I'm glad I did it! Performance is deccent, and it's really fun seeing an 8-month old operating system running on an 8-year-old machine!

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