Problems re-installing Leopard after hardrive reformat

My hard drive had an invalid sibling link and it was about to be passed on to another user. I decided the easiest way to fix the problem was to reformat and do a fresh install. I decided to be thorough and used a seven pass erase. I let that run overnight and we I tried to re-install this morning I ran into some problems. The installer can't find a disk to install on. I went to disk utility and found that my drive was not mounted. I tried mounting it both through disk utility and terminal. It fails both ways. I tried running verify and repair disk through disk utility and they fail instantly. I decided to reformat one more time this time just doing one pass. A few minutes into the process a gray screen pops up telling me to restart my computer. I went through the same process several times and nothing works. The drive still won't mount, repair, verify, or anything else. Is their away to force the drive to mount or does anyone have an idea what could be wrong?

Not too long ago, my hd went south on iBook G3. Now fwiw I used this link:
http://www.powerbookmedic.com/Take-Apart-Repair-Manuals-p-1-c-258.html
and put a new one in. What was of interest is that I had similar problems as you. After some time getting into the machines hd, I noticed that the hd pins were not plugged in uniformally all the way. Basically it was askew at one corner. Field decision: plug in properly or put new one in? New one in.I didn't want to do twice. Anyway, it works with new hd and old hd got tested and was fine. I believe I was a little rough on machine at times and jolted the old hd. Plus if you do yourself, you will have extra screws leftover. The case on mine is a drag to crack open and redo. I never priced a tech to do this. Would I do again? Depends solely on cost. On my machine it took me 2-3 hrs, but then I wasn't in a production shop.

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