iBook Clamshell detects no no new internal hard drive

I have an iBook Clamshell (M2453 PC, 300 MHz) and I just replaced the old 6 GB hard drive with a new hard drive 60 GB. The new drive is a regular 2.5 "IDE/PATA drive. I don't know the brand or the rpm of the road, because the seller provides various brands/rpm and I didn't check before installing. I'm guessing this is a Hitachi, Seagate, Fujitsu, etc. either 5400 or 7200 RPM. I don't think that is important, because the drive came in a clean condition and has been formatted. The problem is that when I try to install OS X 10.3 on the new drive hard, it is not detected at all. It does not appear on the screen "Select Destination", the startup disk, or disk utility. Disk utility shows only the OS X install CD, nothing else. I confirm that this isn't for lack of the CD, as I used it many times in the past to install OS 10.3 on other Macs. I tried to reset the NVRAM, PRAM, I even tried the PMU button under the screen, but nothing has worked. However, the old hard drive with OS 9.2 worked perfectly, and I've made sure to connect everything correctly when I replaced the drive, does this mean a new is simply defective, or there at - it another option to try to fix? I don't disassemble the laptop again, but if I have no choice I will do what I must. Thanks in advance.

If disk utility is not able to detect the hard drive, it could indicate a problem with the drive, the hard drive cable or control circuits in the computer. Disk utility should see at least the reader as such, even if a volume is not displayed.

As a first step, if you have access to a proper record of the Mac OS (9.x), you can test the configuration of disk utility instead (just to see if the hard drive can be detected at all). Also, disk utility on a PowerPC (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ) to a proper Ubuntu CD version could possibly used for similar drive information research and test operations on your computer.

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