Never have seen this before-no HD icon on desktop

And does not show up in Disk Utility. After helping my friend with his Leopard and Office issue I decided to reinstall Leopard on my PB G4 1.25 1GB as it was acting wonky. I load the disk and start the install doing an Archive and Install. The screen shows about 4 hours to go so I go off to get some things done. I come back and my PB has shut down all by itself!
I start it but apparently it didn't finish installing but when I try to run the install disk again it freezes and I have to hard restart. Then it crashes with a kernal panic. I start from an bootable external and the external HD icon appears but not the PB's HD! I go to DU but it just shows "Gathering information..." and the gear just spins and spins.
I try starting from the install disk again and when I get the first windows nothing shows up in the Destination window. I go to Utilities where I can see the HD in DU but it won't let me Erase or Restore and then it crashes as a kernal panic. Repair Disk, Verify, RP all greyed out.
What the heck did I do, what can I do, etc? I have never seen the HD disappear before and I am totally stumped.
Also tried CCC from the bootable external but nothing shows up in the destination window. Sorry-the Target window in CCC.
And, I loaded Leopard on my iMac 2.0 Core Duo 2GB from the same disk and it runs like a champ. No issues at all and much faster than Tiger.
I go to the System Profiler and nothing shows up when I select ATA or Firewire (not even the external I'm running it off of now). It just has the continuously spinning gear.

it seems pretty clear that your PB HD is dead or almost dead.
you should get a new hard drive.

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