Hard Drive Failure After Leopard Install Attempt

Ok - so here's what up...
Got a MacBook. Got Leopard. Tried to install. It froze. Log said there was some error, didn't think much of it and so I just chose the restart option.
When I came back to the choose a startup disk option during the installation... My Internal HD was gone.
1. Yes, I had foolishly left a USB drive attached. My bad.
2. God I wish I had checked that error more closely so I knew what to tell you folks now that I am asking for help.
Anyone got a clue here? I have tried all the reset PMU, PRAM, Disk Utility - nothing is showing me this HD.

Hi
You should be able to access Disk Utility from a menu at the start of the Leopard installation process, before or when you're asked to select a destination volume for the OS install.
If the drive doesn't show in Disk Utility, it may indicate a hardware failure. Hard drives can and do fail, and I guess a fairly disk intensive activity such as an OS install is as 'good' a time as any.
Hopefully it won't come down to this though as you'd probably have to replace the hard drive, under warranty if applicable.

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•Applying to enclosed items run, but the root directory is still locked.
•Ignoring ownership on the volume doesn't change the locked root folder.
•FileXaminer can't seem to do anything either.
•Attempting to change the permissions in the terminal results in a Operation not permitted error.
•Permissions as reported from terminal: drwxrwxrwx@ 25 root admin 918 Dec 8 14:15 Entreri
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•When booting from leopard and running disk utility, the hard drive's are still appearing as locked- nothing is wrong with the drives. I was thinking about reinstalling, but if the installer disk sees the drives as locked, I doubted that would make an issue.
Entreri: 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9
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