No destination volume available in disk utility or install screen

I recently upgraded my Macbook Pro to Snow leopard. Abouot 4 days later, my Mac crashed. When I tried to restart, it came up with the grey screen with apple logo and spinning disc. I have tried all of the resets. I then decided to try and re-boot from the SL install disk. When it asked me to choose a destination volume, however, there was none available. I tried disk utility, but there was no disk available there either. I then went back and tried to use the original install disc that came with the Mac...same results.
It appears that my internal hard disk has disappeared. I wonder if i am going to have to replace the hard drive?

You probably will. It's possible that it became unplugged, in which case it needs to be plugged in again.
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I ran Disk Utility after installing 10.5.6 from Software Updates and I get a lot of SUID Warnings like the following...
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indiana veteran wrote:
I'm getting....
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I do not like the idea of "just ignore", that starts to sound like Microsoft "do not worry about that blue screen just reboot"
Whether you like the idea or not, they are merely warnings.
Please search these forums before posting something that has been posted dozens of times before and answered as many times. Always search before posting.

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I am trying to restore from a disk image in Disk Utility. I dragged the image to the Source Box. When I drag the partition from an external firewire drive to the Destination box, it won't accept it. I have tried to do this with partitions on two separate external firewire drives. The partitions are 10GB. The image file is 6GB

I had this problem just now. On the left side of your Disk Utility should be the partition/volume you want to use as your destination. Try dragging your destination partition/volume into the "Destination Disk" field. Worked for me.

"Volume needs Repair" -Disk Utility--what do i do?

So, my computer was freezing & I had the insight to run Disk Utility on the Repair part, everything comes up great, but on verify, under "Network"--Volume comes up needing repair. I looked it up under About the Mac & see that Volume is empty of info. Here is the report:
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In this instance, "Volume" refers to the hard drive. (I quizzed my fiancée - she thought of speaker loudness too... )
10.1, 10.2 etc is the Mac Operating System version number. (ie My eMac is running Mac OS 10.4.9)
If you flip down the CD/DVD drive door on the front of your eMac, there is a sticker that has the serial number, a barcode, then a series of information.
In my case:
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Xserve RAID volume corruption, volumes missing in Disk Utility

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Morning Bodance,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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However my Machintosh HD does not show up in disk utility when booting from the install disk and does not come up in the select destination option.
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Didnt used check disk utility on install & want to reinstall from scratch

Things are buggy so figured a reinstall this time using the Check disk utlity thingy - anyone know what I need to do?

OK, I think we can narrow this down.
My first inclination is to think that you might have some directory corruption that's interfering with how your Mac is running. The comment above to back up your data is right on. Do that first.
Once that's done, try booting to your install disk, selecting Disk Utility from the Utilities menu, and then select your hard drive. Pick "Verify disk," and if it needs repair, choose "Repair disk" - this may resolve the issue.
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Usually, if a machine comes with a bluetooth device, you can check it under Device Manager > Bluetooth (a generic Windows driver will used if there's no OEM driver installed- see image below).
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Disk Utility Mount Volume

Trying to mount a particular volume (john) in disk utility using Applescript. Just got the script to open disk utility. What language is necessary to mount this particular volume?
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This is a slightly messy situation, particularly as code seems to work differently with 10.4.6 and 10.4.11
Long story short: I've been using the do shell script command for this on 10.4.6 for some time, with an issue related only to diskutil unmount (not mount) -- see discussion of this below.
I only recently upgraded to 10.4.11 and SEEM to be seeing different behavior, but I don't have time to explore that right now.
In any case:
1) Niel is correct in that disk utility isn't scriptable beyond basic commands
2) Using the shell (or do shell script), I've been using the disk identifier, rather than the disk name. You can find the disk identifier by highlighting the disk of interest in disk utility and then selecting "Get Info". The disk identifier will be in the form (example) 1s3.
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4) Try this:
do shell script "diskutil (un)mount disk1S3" -- using, of course, the correct identifier, and it doesn't matter that the disk is an external one. And, of course, delete "(un)" if you are mounting the drive.
5) This will probably work for you, but I'm finding at the moment that identifying the drive by name rather than disk identifier is NOT working consistently in 10.4.11.
6) You will probably find that the "mount" command is fast but that the unmount command has a delay of some 20 seconds +/-. This happens also with 10.4.6, and there is no apparent workaround with "do shell script." HOWEVER, if you use terminal more directly, via AppleScript," that unmount delay disappears -- at least in 10.4.6. My quick tries in 10.4.11 seem to reveal a new issue (later).
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OKAY, now you're left with the problem of using the disk identifier, which changes on every re-boot of the computer. The scripts I wrote in the past actually get the disk identifier associated with each drive name -- but these are long scripts with some pretty messy code, and you probably don't want to get into that sort of thing. On the other hand, it seems to me that I've successfully used the /Volumes/(drive name) approach in 10.4.6, so this may be another instance of 10.4.11 acting differently.
If you want, try some of the suggestions above and post your findings -- I think I'll be looking at this more with respect to the apparent 10.4.11 issues.

Disk utility failure - cannot start OS-X

I'm not an IT professional, so please be gentle!
Problem
Forced shutdown required & now will not reboot.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name:          MacBook Pro
Model Identifier:          MacBookPro5,3
Processor Name:          Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:          2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors:          1
Total Number Of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          6 MB
Memory:          4 GB
Bus Speed:          1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version:          MBP53.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.48f2
Serial Number (system):          W8***C
Hardware UUID:          F2499E20-039F-595D-8EA3-E0CBCBB0AC5E
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
NVidia MCP79 AHCI:
Vendor:          NVidia
Product:          MCP79 AHCI
Link Speed:          3 Gigabit
Description:          AHCI Version 1.20 Supported
ST9500420ASG:
Capacity:          500.11 GB (500,107,862,016 bytes)
Model:          ST9500420ASG
Revision:          0007APM2
Serial Number:                      5V***5
Native Command Queuing:          Yes
Queue Depth:          32
Removable Media:          No
Detachable Drive:          No
BSD Name:          disk0
Rotational Rate:          7200
Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
Volumes:
Macintosh HD:
Capacity:          499.76 GB (499,763,888,128 bytes)
Available:          380.01 GB (380,008,734,720 bytes)
Writable:          Yes
File System:          Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:          disk0s2
Mount Point:          /Volumes/Macintosh HD
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Invalid directory item count (it should be 33 instead of 32)
Mac OS X installer (from DVD)
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The bless tool was unable to set the current boot disk
Disk utility - from install DVD
First Aid -
verify disk permissions
verify disk
Repair disk permissions
'ACL found but not expected'
'unable to get owner & group'
'unable to get permissions'
Rpt
Erase -
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could not unmount disk
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'An error occurred while erasing your restore destination disk (restart your computer, and then try restoring again)'
Conclusions
It appears that the HDD needs replacing.
I'm concerned the motherboard may also be faulty? How can I check (without purchasing another disk drive first)?
It seems strange (to me) that all information relating to the disk can be accessed, & all of the folders can be viewed using disk utility.
Yet the disk cannot be reformatted, or recovered from Time Machine back-up
Nor can the operating system be re-installed
Since I have Time Machine I presume I'll be able to restore the full profile to a new disk drive?
If I need to purchase a new disk (& the motherboard is ok), any recommendations which disk to buy?
Any suggestions why this disk failed? Is it related to 'sleep' and applications not shutting down properly.
Any advice most welcome.
with thanks
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