My Hard drive crashed and doesn't appear on installation DVD

I was working on my Mac and accidently opened Preferences. I then clicked on the mouse/keyboard settings. I got the spinning color wheel for a while. I couldn't force quit or anything. I restarted my computer. I got the flashing folder/question mark. So I put in the 10.4 installation DVD and was going to do a disk utility on it. When it prompted to select a HD to install on, nothing showed up. I have two 150G hard drives. Earlier I was having problems with it and I was able to partition from one to two HDs. Everything was working for 4-5 months just fine until this happened. What do I do to get the Hard Drive to show up or do I need a new HD? Thanks for all your help.
Greg

When you get sounds like that, it usually means that a HD is failing.
Partitioning means that you divide the HD space into two or more partitions. For example, on a 150GB HD, you divide it into a 100GB partition and a 50GB partition. I don't understand what you mean by "when I got it, they were partitioned together".
Do both HDs have a bootable system (10.4.x) on them? Several things to try if both have a bootable system.
Depress the Option key at startup. This will activate the Startup Manager & a window will appear with bootable HD icons. You can click on an icon & then click on the right arrow.
You can disconnect the ribbon cable from one HD & then try booting. If you get the blinking ?, then power down. Reconnect that HD's ribbon cable, & then disconnect the other HD's cable & then try booting.
 Cheers, Tom

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