How do I repair a damaged hard drive?

does it have to be replaced or can it be fixed using soft ware?

With no install drive and a potentially flaky boot drive there is no guarantee of success.  Here's some schemes you can try.
1. Boot in safe mode.  I believe it does a fsck (file system check) of the boot drive.
2. Related to 1.
Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck
3. Ggt yourself an external drive and hope you can clone the boot drive to it using Carbon Copy Cloner (or Super Duper).  Then boot from the external and try to repair the original boot drive.
Of course I shouldn't have to say that you should always have a backup (backups) of your drives anyhow.
4. Contact apple to try to replace your installer dvds.

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