Hard drive replaced w/ Seagate drive -G4 starts up but won't recognize it

Hi,
I'm trying to help out a friend with a 733 MHz G4 that I'm giving to him. I pulled out the hard drive because, while it was working ok, Disk Warrior said that it was too damaged to make repairs. So I found someone at work who had an 80Gg HD Seagate Barricuda that he said worked great but was too small for him.
I popped the damaged HD out and put the Barricuda in. I started up the 733 MHz G4, it chimed up, and displayed the little icon asking for a hard drive. I inserted a Mac OS install disk, and it proceeded to install. When it came to the part of actually assigning a hard drive to install the OS on, nothing showed up. It does not recognize the Barricuda hard drive. So my questions are --
1) how can this mac start up without there being a hard drive?
2) do I need to go back and fidget with the two cables?
3) what else can I do to make this a happy marriage of barricuda meeting G4 - or did I snag the wrong kind of hard drive for this? The cables seemed to fit in perfectly.
Any help is much appreciated!
Sheila

Just because the drive could not be repaired by DiskWarrior does not mean that there is anything PHYSICALLY wrong with it: It might just mean that the Directory is too badly mangled to make sense of.
I am aware that I ended the above sentence with a "dangling participle," a practice to be avoided.
In my many years of this sort of thing I have only ever has one case where a drive was too scrambled for DW but it can happen.
If it were MY G4 tower, I would pull the 80-gig drive out & put the other (damaged) drive back in.
Fire up off the System disk and eradicate erase reformat the old drive & re-install a fresh system on it.
This will verify that the beast is mechanically firing on all cylinders. If your G4 (like mine) has a short ATA cable with TWO connectors make sure that the Bananacuda drive is the ONLY HD in the G4, connected to the LAST connector on the cable, and configured to be the Single or Master....
OR....
LEAVE the old HD, configured as Master, on the end connector and configure the Bananacuda as Slave and plug it into the MIDDLE of the ribbon cable.
If the computer still fails to see the 80-gig seagate drive look for it by booting off DiskWarrior to see if it is actually present on the ATA bus.
I love a mystery.
The drive MAY be NFG, or the cable might be flaky (rare but possible) or simply loose. Make sure the POWER plug is good: try another one.

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