First model unibody macbook pro is dead help!

I have the first model of the unibody macbook pros. It started to get reall slow and id get that pinwheel often when using it. I transfered all of my important files to an external harddrive when i noticed it was starting to die. I then started messing around in disk utility at the startup menu and pretty much erased everything off the harddrive because now i get a flashing grey question mark folder at startup. I do have mountain lion installed on a usb drive and when i plug that in and boot up i get the disk utility, install osx, backup with time machine, and safari options. But nothing i do on disk utility will complete i keep getting errors and when i try to install mountain lion when i get to where you have to pick where you want to install it all thats there is the usb drive that mountain lion is installed on. I need help

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Your hard drive is damaged. it looks like it's not working properly, so you need to change it.
You can get another hard drive at OWC > http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/2.5-Notebook/ Your MacBook needs a 2'5" SATA II hard drive. You can filter the hard drives by the MacBook Pro model, so you can get the hard drives that are compatible with your MacBook. 7200 rpm hard drives will give you extra performance

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