Unable to Boot from New HDD ( HELP! )

Hello,
Purchased a Seagate 500GB HDD in 2008. Just a few weeks ago, my Power Mac was no longer able to boot from it. It was the infinity gray load screen, then reboot and repeat x forever. Checked cable connections, Disk Utilities said it was 'Ok,' and even sent in the HDD to the manufacture and got a new HDD.
Now with the new HDD installed, it continues to do the same load screen of death. Oddly, when I boot from the original 80GB that came with the Power Mac, it can read the 500GB HDD without a problem.
Disk Utilities says its, 'Ok' still.
What am I doing wrong?

VDEZ wrote:
What am I doing wrong?
Depending on Disk Utility?
You need to give us a little better clue here. You say that you have gotten an exchange drive and you can't boot from that one. How did you get the data onto that drive? Was it a fresh system install or was it a restore from backup?
When the failed boot is occurring, do you get the spinning-gear progress indicator, or do you not get that far?
If you get the progress gear going, then a verbose boot (hold down cmd-V combination at power-up until you start to see "dumb terminal" output on the screen) can help diagnose the problem. If you are truly stalling during the boot, this will give you a good idea of where exactly it is stalling.

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