G5 not recognize sata 2.0 internal hard drive

My Seagate 500 GB harddrive is failing and sometimes will not boot.   The Smart test using TechTools Pro 6.0 shows it passing all the tests but several test the marker is a third of the way toward fail.    This drive must have structure problems that I can't fix.
I purchased a new Western Digital Caviar HD   7200 2.0 Terabite hard drive.   The Mac Pro will not recognize the drive internally.   I formated it on a windows machine and the hooked it to my Mac Book Pro (Intell based) as an external drive. I formated it and partitioned it under the Apple Partition standard rather than GUID per instructions on WD's website.   The Mac Book Pro and the Mac G5 both recognize the Caviar drive as an external drive but the G5 does not recognize the drive internally to install my operating system. I reversed the other Time Machine drive to be sure there wasn't a wiring problem in the Hard Drive enclosure.   The Time Machine Harddrive (Hitachi 750 HD) works in both.
I can not find if there is an issue of the size of the Hard Drive. I'm using Leopard with the Power PC chip in the G5.
Any ideas ????
Bill

Again, I have spend several weeks working on the hard drive issue.   Neither the old hard drive nor the new replacement are recognized by the internal slot.   Both are recognized as external harddrives.
I had a second hard drive, Hitatchi, that I used Super Duper to clone the old Seagate. It now seems to work. I used Tech Tool Pro 6 to clean up the volume as much as I could.   The disk utility still finds some issues on SUID but I guess they are not the cause from other posts I have read concerning disk permissions.
I reset the PRAM and SMU.
I am reluctant to buy a third hard drive if the internal board does not recognize the hard disk. I have run the tests in Tech Tool Pro 6 but nothing is indicated as a problem.
Does anyone have a clue what is going on regarding hard drives and the Power Mac G5??
PS I used the external connection to do all the hard drive tests and optimization of the old Seagate 500 GB HD. It seems to be ok and working fine.   The super duper clone was a pain because the program would frequently hang even though I was not using the power mac G5 to externally connect the two. I used my Mac Book Pro to connect the external Seagate 500 HD to the Power mac G5 Hitatchi in Target mode. It was a long drawn out process but it seems to have worked.   I just don't know if the Power Mac G5 is stable enough to spend more money on still another hard drive.

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2) The connector was damaged in some way. If the service center caused the problem, they should cover it, though you may have a difficult time getting them to admit that they caused the problem. If you caused the damage yourself, that would not be covered under warranty. The drive is considered a user-installable part, but if you cause any damage while installing the drive, that is not covered.
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