Install Leopard with Upgrade disc

My computer crashed this morning, so I went and bought a new hard drive, popped it in and inserted my Leopard upgrade disc that I purchased upon release. It does nothing when I start up, I don't see my new drive. OK, I thought, I guess I'll just have to install Tiger using the Restore disc that came with my computer and upgrade from there. Wait, where's my restore disc?
So, is there any way to install Leopard on a brand new drive without the system restore disc that came with the machine?
Thanks so much!

The format of your disk may be incorrect. Look in Disk Utility (you can access this when started from the install disk): if the hard drive shows up, click on the top entry (the drive) and check that at the bottom 'Partition map scheme' says 'GUID'. If it doesn't, you will have to reformat the disk using the 'Partition' tab - you can set it to only one partition.
If you click on the volume just below the disk name, the format for this must be 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' - if this is not the case you will need to use the 'Erase' tab to reformat it in this format.

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