New HD not recognized

Just installed a new hard drive in the iBook, and it doesn't show up in Disk Utility. In hardware test cd, it says that there is a hard drive. Any ideas?

The drive did not show up in Disk Utility. I could not format what did not appear. I was booting up from OSX 10.3 install CD. Last night I disassembled and reassembled, taking the IDE cable off and putting it back on. Apparently that worked, for now I am using my iBook. The cable looked fully seated when I took it apart, but apparently it wasn't seated...or something. I am a little leary of it suddenly working just from unplugging and plugging it back in, but at least I will know what needs to be done if things start going weird later on. This is the third hard drive (first two under warranty) that this computer has had installed, so the cable might be a little tired from all the previous repair work.
As an added bonus, I only spent $95 verses $290 that Apple quoted me. I gained 20GB of memory, and got a faster drive. Its incredibly quiet. (Obviously one would expect that to be true when the old one spun at full speed continously as it was dying.) At least they helped me diagnose the problem, when my computer first started hanging. He ran Disk Utility and Disk Genius, both times it returned an unrepairable error. I have had no other problems besides the hard drives going crazy, so I figured that it was a good bet to replace the hard drive. Its suprising to me to know that the old hard drive, Toshiba 60GB MK6025GAS which is the standard drive, went on the fritz only after about 18 months of life. Perhaps an IDE cable replacement is in order? Thoughts?
Thanks for your suggestions fellas, I appreciate that someone responded!

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