Have you got the old HDD still plugged into your LB? if so you should remove the cable and try booting again, try tapping F11 when the computer boots up, it might allow you to go into system restore, it would wipe everything from your HDD but seeing as you don't have anything on there yet as its new you have absolutely nothing to lose, with regards to your driver for you HDD, when I installed my second HDD onto my LB it picked it up automatically.

Additionally if you install an old version of Windows XP it could be worth noting that if it doesn't have SP3 it will limit the size of the HDD to 127GB but this can be solved go to Disk Management and see if you have some unpartitioned space there. You can find Disk Management under Computer Management, which you get to by right clicking "My Computer" and select "Manage". If you can't see the total space there, your BIOS might not support large hard drives.