Replaced HDD on intel mac and it wont boot

Hi , My mom bought an Intel mac a couple years ago and it had a harddrive failure , instead of taking it back on warraty she put it in the closet.
So I thought I'd put a new drive in it and shed be happy.. so I bought a seagate 2 TB drive in it , but it wont boot , it just goes to a folder and question mark.. I cant seem to find a boot menu anywhere .I've tried all of the ways to get to the boot menu but nothing seems to work. I inserted the osx disc one and it accepted it but now wont eject it.. I'm just a bit frustrated ,. anyone have any advice ,
                                                                                                   Thanks

You must first prep the drive then install OS X.
Drive Preparation
1.  Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.  When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area.  If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.  SMART info will not be reported  on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
When formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer.  Complete the OS X installation.

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