Switching boot drive to new internal drive??

I just got a new 150 gb internal drive installed and I've been trying to install the restore software to use it for the new boot drive instead of my old 80 gb. Disk Utility will recognize it but the install software process just shows the old drive. I've tried several times, starting up with the restore disk. Disk Utility will not format it either, all options remain greyed out. The new drive is a ST3160811AS, the profiler says SMART status is Not Supported if that is relevant.
power mac g5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1.5 ram, dual 1.8,

That's odd...the link doesn't work but I can do a search and access the popst from there...so I copied and pasted the text from the post
"Some of you might know that Seagate 7200.9 series SATA drives have had a problem when installed inside a PowerMac G5 because the G5s are not compatible with the Spread Spectrum Clocking (SSC) feature on those drives.
Apparently, Seagate has been paying close attention to this problem, because they have recently begun shipping some of these drives with SSC disabled.
The clue to whether a 7200.9 drive has SSC disabled is in the part number. If the part number has a suffix that is NOT -301, the drive has SSC disabled, which means that you can install it in a G5 without first installing it in a PC and running Seagate's MS-DOS utility to disable the feature.
For example a 400GB drive with SSC disabled would be ST3400633AS-303.
In case you don't know, SSC is a feature intended to reduce electronic emissions (EMI) in large multi-drive installations. These drives meet EMI standards for a single drive without SSC enabled.
FYI. FWIW."
Do a search on 7200.9, SSC and you'll see several threads which may help you solve the problem....I'm afraid it sounds like the old SSC issue.

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