I lost my iMac G4 Hard Drive

I erased the hard drive on my iMac G4 using disk utility and reinstalled Panther and Mac OS9 and it worked fine, I shut down the computer for the night, The next day when i went to start it up the Mac HD icon was gone,  I got the flashing question mark then a blue screen, I used disk utility to reinstall panther but couldn't find a destination to install it on, when I tried to use disk utility to fix the problem the only drives it could find was network start up, sessions and the panther install disk, I tried reseting the prams and I even tried to start my mac in safe mode with no luck, I am totally lost and would appreciate a little help to get my mac up and running.

Unfortunately it sounds as if your hard drive has failed.  When you are in Disk Utility does the drive show as Verified on the bottom of the page?  Probably not, so a new drive is in your future.

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