Powerbook G4 crashed and OS will not reinstall, can you help?

hello everyone. Yesterday at 11:46 my powerbook, which was operating normally, crashed and
will not restart.
1 I get a filefolder with a blinking face.
2 reinstalling the OS, it will not recognize the disk
3 diskwarrior will only green light the hardware
4 zapping the PRAM did nothing
5 I have OS on an external which yesterday would not boot, but today does
how do I get the original disk to respond so I can reinstall OS?
any help would be apreciated. BTW, I'm in Spain for the next several months,
so going to the genius bar is not a solution.
tks

Hi drozman, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I think your Hard Drive is a goner, Laptop Drives are prety short lived.
Have run the extended Apple HW Test? Do you jave that CD?
If not, Here's the list and downloads for AHT...
http://www.info.apple.com/support/aht.html
Watch it closely, sometimes with a bad HDD it just skips that test and is the only way you can tell.
Good luck!

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