You guys helped me diagnose, now I'm hoping you can help me with the fix!

I found out through the help of this forum that the hard drive in my original G5 iMac had failed. I ordered a new Serial ATA hard drive (Seagate Barracuda) and installed it without incident. The thermal sensor assembly (which I have read is a big issue a lot of times) was not damaged in the process, and the thing all went in and went back together very smoothly. However, when I started the machine up (booting from a FW DVD drive with the original OS install disc that came with the machine) and got to the part in the OSX installation process where it asked for me to select a destination drive for the install, it did not give me any options from which to choose. As in, it seemed not to see that the drive was there.
I called a local friend who is more knowledgeable than I and asked if he had any suggestions, and he suggested that I check the jumpers. After a ridiculous amount of searching, I found that the 4-pin jumper assembly on my new drive seems only to have one purpose, and that is to choose to limit the speed of communication between the drive and the mainboard if necessary. The indicated jumpers were already shunted when I unwrapped the drive, so I pulled the shunt and tried again, with the same result. I'm out of ideas. Any help would be grand.

Hi huffdog,
When you go to Disk Utility, with the hard drive highlighted, down the bottom it should tell you what "partition scheme" is in use. "GUID" is for booting Intel Macs, "Apple partition scheme" is for PPC macs, like the iMac G5, Master Boot record is for PC's.
If you have the wrong "partition scheme" showing, then you will need to re-partition and reformat the drive.
To change it you go to the partition tab. Look below the diagram of the partition and you should see an "options" button. If it is greyed out you will need to select a scheme from the drop down menu (just choose "1 partition" again if that is what you wanted). The "options" button should now be available. Click on it and you will be able to select between the three "schemes" I mentioned above. Choose "Apple partition Scheme.
If you have the wrong partition scheme, even if you succeed in installing the OS on the drive, it won't be bootable.
Cheers
Rod

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