How do I format a Windows HD to replace a Cube G4 HD?

Hi. I recently bought a Apple Power Mac Cube G4 for my parents because they were sick of their PC. the Cube came with a 20GB HD and the PC had a 160GB HD. I took the 20 out of the cube and put the 160 in its place last night. I then booted off the Tiger installation disc. It got to the installation screen, but of course it said it could not install the operating system on the HD, which I was expecting. I then opened up Disk Utility, clicked the "Erase" tab and set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I then clicked the 7-Pass Erase and after it was done, it was still in MS-Dos format. MS-Dos is the only option in Partition as well (aside from free space which didn't work). I'm clueless on what's going on. Do I maybe need to try reformatting the HD again? Help, please.
PowerBook G4 15" 1.67GHZ, 100GB, 2GB, DVD-RW Mac OS X (10.4.7) Power Mac Cube G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 450MHZ, 512MB, 160GB, DVD-ROM

Well, I said I believe (I dont have a cube) but older Mac's did not have ATA 133 which allows the system to utilize larger than 130G HD's. Like my G4-AGP tower cant see any drive larger than 130, unless I use a PCI controller card, like when I installed a SATA 160 G Seagate, it found it because the new SATA controller card allows for larger format hard drives.
I thought, but I guessed I was mistaken, that the CUBE could not see larger format drives.
Glad it works. I used CCC before too. worked great. I hadnt mentioned it because I hadnt followed up soon enough to see that you try what I said.
But glad everthing works now which is the important thing.
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