Help. Installed new hd and it does and doesn't show up

I'm helping out my nephew who's in college. His hard drive failed, so he sent his laptop to me and I installed a new hard drive. I replaced his 60 GB drive with a 120 GB. (G4 Aluminum 12 inch) I hooked the drive up to my ibook by putting it in target mode and the drive showed up. Formatted it and sent it off to him.
He has tried using the original restore disks to install 10.3 on it, but the hard drive doesn't show up. He hooked it to his G5 tower via firewire, and it does show up in target mode. He used Disk Utility on his G5 to attempt another format, but when trying the install disks, he found the disks still won't recognize the new drive.
What do I try next?

Scott:
I am not sure what is going on. If the problem persists, try this:
Formatting, Partitioning Zeroing a Hard Disk Drive
Boot from the install CD holding down the "C" key.
Select language
Go to the Utilities menu (Tiger) Installer menu (Panther & earlier) and launch Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select Partition tab in main panel. (You are about to create a single partition volume.)
Select number of partition in pull-down menu above Volume diagram.
(Note 1: One partition is normally preferable for an internal HDD.)
Type in name in Name field (usually Macintosh HD)
Select Volume Format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click Partition button at bottom of panel.
Select Erase tab
Select the sub-volume (indented) under Manufacturer ID (usually Macintosh HD).
Check to be sure your Volume Name and Volume Format are correct.
Click Erase button
Quit Disk Utility.
Installation Process
Open Installer and begin installation.
Choose to Customize and deselect Foreign Language Translations and Additional Printer drivers.
Check box to install X11 (Tiger) BSD Subsystems (Panther & earlier).
Proceed with installation.
After installation computer will restart for setup.
After setup, reboot computer.
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select First Aid in main panel.
Click Repair Disk Permissions.
Connect to Internet.
Download and install 10.3.9 Combo Update or Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo update (PPC) depending on OS installed.
Computer will reboot.
Repair Disk Permissions as before.
Go to Apple Menu > Software Update.
Install all updates.
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
Select your HDD (manufacturer ID) in left side bar.
Select First Aid in main panel.
Click Repair Disk Permissions.
Let me know how things go.
Cheers
cornelius

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