G5 Crashes, cannot reinstall as detination volume is not found

I have been experiencing problems with my G5 as follows:
1. computer freezes with spinning beach ball and will not respond, dock remains magnified.
2. Computer will switch off from power button only.
3. Computer will not reboot - grey screen and fan running high
4. Install disk cannot verify or repair hard drive volume due to error (underlying task reported failure on exit (-9972)
5. Tried to reinstall osx but the destination volume cannot be found.
6. Tried resetting pram and smu - no joy.
7. Disconnected power supply for some minutes - no joy.
8. Computer is left for hours and will reboot with no noticeble reason or pattern and will run for no specific time from 2 minutes to 3 days and will then freeze and we start all over again as above.
Please help
g5 Mac OS X (10.3.9) imac g5 20inch 1.8ghz 768 ram

Welcome To Discussions triggerz215!
That's not good. Your HD either has serious directory corruption, or is failing.
More info here Disk Utility reports "Underlying task reported failure" when repairing a volume.
And here are links to two Third-Party utilities, referred to in the article.
DiskWarrior
TechTool Pro
Instructions for How to use FireWire target disk mode, to backup your data.
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