New drive not recognized

I installed additional hard drive, icon showed up initially, now that drive is no longer recognized by computer: SATA internal drive 400 Gig Western Digital.
I set it up as 1 partition. How can I get computer to recognize the newly installed drive?
g5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Excellentpa has a 1.8GHz (single) G5 with 1GB RAM. I helped him install the SE16 WD4000KD without knowing the issues with that drive.
Quick Recap:
- installed WD4000KD drive in G5.
- drive initialized fine, but not recognized upon reboot.
- unrecognized drive removed
- now on startup, HD seems to speed up continuously and no functions work.
He's got the original OSX disk that came with the computer, but no apparent way to install the disk and access the disk repair utility since the CD drive door won't function.
Any ideas for a fix? Thanks!
Chris ~
Powermac G4/dual 1-GHz/silver Door Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1TB HD/2GB RAM

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