No destination volume when reinstalling OS X 10.4

I started up my iMac this morning and it went to a grey screen and then came up with a flashing questionmark. i looked this up and figured i should boot from the installation disk and see what was wrong.
I tried to reinstall the OS but when i get to the part where i have to chose a destination volume, there is nothing there. i have left it half an hour adn there is still nothing there. I then checked in disk utility, and all that shows up there is the installation disk on the superdrive.
I then ran the extended apple hardware test from the installation disk and it came up with no errors, said the mass storage (which i presume means the hard drive) passed.
Anyone know whats wrong? I would really appreciate any suggestions.

Hello margm:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
You might try resetting PRAM:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
This article includes more troubleshooting steps:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58042
Barry

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