10.8 Install - Unable to Choose Disc

Mac Mini server with 10.8 (ie mac Mini with 2 internal discs)
One of the discs is dying so I want to install the OS on to the other disc
Problem - the installer never offers me the chocie of whiuich disc to installon to, and automatically chooses the bad disc.
This happens both with installing from USB, and also in recovery mode.
Any ideas how to force install onto the disc of my choosing?
Thanks for any suggestions.

That would make sense, but no. If I reformat the good disc, and reboot from the USB, it just goes ahead with the install on the wrong disc without ever offering me a choice.
I am pretty sure my diagnosis is correct, because in Disk Utility, looking at the good disc, the number of file and space used are exactly the same after a failed install & after a reformat. So my conclusion is that the install was attempted o the bad disc.
Is there anyway that I can flag the bad disc as unwriteable or unmount it before the install starts?

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