New hard drive won't select as startup disk

I just installed a new hard drive in my 17" iMac flatpanel. I have it set as master, it comes up in Disk Utility, I erased it... again and when I tried to install from a disk, it told me I couldn't use it as the startup disk and had the stop sign with the exclamation point in it.
I was able to restore from a working image I had on my ipod, but when I did the restart, I still got the flashing folder.
Any suggestions would be great!
Chuck

Not sure how you got here. This is the discussion area for the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) and wireless networking. Your question has nothing to do with that at all.
You should post your question in the iMac Flat Panel discussion area.

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