Macbook not reading new 320gb HDD!!

I just purchased a new 320gb Hitachi hdd and I'm trying to install Leopard using the Leopard DVD and when it's time to select the hdd to install it in there is nothing there. What am I doing wrong? Is there something wrong with the HDD? It's a 320gb 7200rpm Hitachi. I'm using a Black Macbook Core Duo.

zues21 wrote:
How would I do that?
I think the suggestion was to simply format the entire drive again, but with a single partition. That would destroy any data that was placed on either partition, including the Leopard installation if you've already done that.
You wouldn't have any easy way of just removing that partition and adding the capacity to the larger partition. If it's only 1 GB, I'd just leave it in there unless you really don't like seeing the drive icon on your desktop.

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