Intel/Non Intel Tiger install mix up on HD replacement

Objective:
On an iMac intel trying to simply swap out an original 250GB internal drive that died with a 1TB and re-instal Tiger.
*Situation Now*:
Booting off the original install disks for this intel iMac, when get to the select destination drive screen, there is no destination drive to select.
Using Utilities>Disk Utilities the drive is listed, but oddly is listed as a 7.3TB drive. Attempting to format the drive returns "A Disk Erase failed with the error: Input/Output Error".
If I start the iMac in target mode and connect it to my non intel PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11 the drive can be formated/partitioned with no problem using Disk Utilities on this machine and works perfectly.
What might be going on here and how do I get this thing going?
Original drive was a Western Digital Caviar Se 250GB and has been replaced with Western Digital Caviar Green (WD10EARS).
History:
When I first started up the iMac with the new drive it started up with the expected question mark folder. I tried to start up using a Tiger installation DVD but it wouldn't start (the reason was I had used the Tiger disk for my non intel PowerBook by mistake). At this point I suspected wrongly that the DVD drive might be suspect and so using the same disks in my PowerBook hooked up to the iMac in Target Mode, saw the drive, formated and installed Tiger. Disconnected and re-started the iMac, which of course wouldn't boot up. At this point I realised I'd used the wrong install disk and there was nothing wrong with the DVD drive in the first place. So now I have the correct install disk and am in the above *Situation Now*

Hi,
First off, you do not want to use a "Green" drive as a boot drive, besides being much slower, they sleep or step down on their own schedule, is it too late to return it?
Also, is the Mac this is going in SATA1 or SATA2, if SATA1 then you need a jumper on pins 5 & 6 to slow it down.

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