Hard drive noise and now death?

I have a 600mH G3 dual boot iBook with 640 MB RAM. It has been running fine. About three weeks ago I bought and installed Tiger, and it continued to work fine. I hadn't booted into OS 9 since the upgrade except to test it until today. OS 9 boots were the only ones which networked well with my other Macs.
While booted in OS 9 and trying to connect the file sharing, the iBook hard drive started making an odd noise, sounding much like it was rapidly but laboriously trying to access the hard drive with large moves of the reading head. It would stop and the processing would continue, but the iBook kept freezing. I was trying to get it fully booted in OS 9 so that I could change the boot back to OS X, but I was never successful to do that. In the end, the hard drive apparently c rashed.
Now, ASP reports the drive as there but says it has no information about it and that it is not mounted.
DiskFirstAid doesn't see the drive at all.
Drive Setup sees the drive but now calls it "unsupported."
DiskWarrior 2.1 does not see the drive.
I'm assuming that this was just a sudden death of the drive., or is there something else I can try?
If it is dead, can I replace the drive somewhat easily myself? Can I put in a larger drive, say 40 or 60 GB. It came with a 20GB, which was about half full.

The Option key should give you the Startup Manager (which is maybe what you tried to access).
If you have OS X installed on the hard drive, you're going to need the upgraded DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory. There's no way around that. The new DiskWarrior is your best chance to salvage the drive, in my opinion.
You probably know by now that, indeed, the drive can be replaced with a larger one.
Hard drive upgrade services:
http://www.macservice.com/drives.cfm?gclid=CMybj5yrwoQCFShDSgod9xK6MQ
http://www.dttservice.com/harddriveandram/powerbooklaptopharddrive.html
http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&StoreCode=MTOS&CategoryCode=SVCIBWHT

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