No HD to Select.. Cannot Find a related topic.

Hi, i have a macbook pro g5 intel 2.5g duo. Have leopard 10.5.7 and had a pc formatted HD plugged in and it was pulled out and since the apple logo screen with the spinning circle is all i see.
So i restart the computer with the osX DVD selected language, pushed continue
and no HD shows to select. Have plugged in an external also to see if would show and it see's it but no other HD.
Have tried to verify the disk but the buttons are greyed out and dont let me select the option to verify or erase. Cannot partition or erase as i get an error whenever i try to. It fails to do so.
I cannot do anything else that i can think of at the moment.
Please help!

raekwon_3 wrote:
A PC formatted HD plugged into my usb port showed the files in the HD and then would not let me eject it. I pulled it out and then shut down my computer. It then would never go past the apple screen with the spinning circle.
Let's go back nearer the beginning to better understand your situation. Are you saying that prior to attaching the USB drive to the MacBook Pro, it appeared to be functioning normally, but after doing that the Mac would not allow you to eject the USB drive so you just unplugged it while the Mac was still running?
Did you get some message about why the Mac would not let you eject the drive or is there some other reason you could not do this? What, if anything, were you doing or had just done when you discovered the drive could not be ejected?
Moving on, you say that after that, you could not get the Mac to start up beyond displaying the Apple logo & spinner. Was this with or without the USB drive plugged into the Mac?
So i didnt try to install it just read it and take files off it.
How were you trying to take files off it? I assume the "it" was the USB drive, & if the Mac would not start normally at this point, you must have been started up from the Leopard installer disk, but I have no idea how you could read any files from it if the Installer application was running. And I don't quite know what you mean by "try to install it." What is the "it" here, the Leopard OS or the drive?
So i can get to the point of disk utility but i constantly get a ,=messgae that an error has occured no matter how many times i try.
Try to do what? Install the OS onto the USB drive, onto the internal drive, or do something else?
the only thing i can seem to do it create a disk image but it takes forever for the image engine to start. I have left things to run for at least an hour with no change, ami too impatient?
I assume you mean you have started up from the Leopard DVD at this point, but beyond that I can only guess. Are you saying that you went into the "Utilities" menu from the installer application & used Terminal or Disk Utility to try to create a disk image (of the USB drive?) but the image-making process would not launch? How are you selecting a location for the disk image & where is it?
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