Where has my hard drive gone?

hello there I recently got a snow 600Mhz. It was working fine then one day it refused to boot up. I get a blank screen with a square in the middle that has a picture of the earth in the middle of it, that alternates with the flashing folder icon you see when it can't find a system to boot up from. I thought it may be a failed hard drive so I put another one in. Booted from the macs restore CDs fine but when it came to actually finding a hard drive for the system to be restored onto the computer said it couldn't find one and then pesented me with the blank screen with the square in the centre with the picture of the earth in it again alternating with the flashing folder icons. I am at al loss as to what to do next. Any ideas?

i have the very same problem, it flashes up with a picture of the earth on startup. i have an imac g4 and was working late on it last night; i'm trying to put a new int HD for a bigger one, but i thought it was easier than what i have come across (bit of trial an erroring-bit risky but have to do it!) but i have just had a brainwave at work, thinking it may be that i have my Airport card inserted in and its trying to boot from that. i.e. i'm gunna take it out and see what happens.
if ya can give any advice on the steps to putting a disk image i created from my old 40gb int HD onto my new one, that would be a help. at present i am stuck trying to put the image on the new drive. i thought i could just click on restore and drag the diskimage.dmg file onto the new hard drive. its set to master w/slave instead of just master, but i dont really know the difference. any way, let me know if you have experienced the same problem?? ta, p

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