Problems with my internal hard drive on iMac?

Hi, Good day!
A few days ago i try to upgrade my iMac to Mavericks download the OSX from apple website and install but is fail cannot install?
After that restart my iMac if became black screen, restart again and insect CD OSX 10.6.4 and reinstall also cannot find the hard drive go to Disk Ultility - only show my media 0GB and S.M.A.R.T not supported.
What can i do?

Awesome! I thought thats how it would work but just wanted to make sure in case I had any problems further down the line. Thanks for the help.

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http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgL9u7ySUk
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Along the same lines the sata drives use more power than the pata drives...
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Hardly high and not mighty.
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It sounds like you do have a UPS, not a surge protector, though it probably provides this in addition.
The fact that your external drives dropped during import is the same as removing a drive without unmountingf it, yes? Who knows what state the inode/allocation tables look like and no surprise that any clusters part updated were dropped. They'll rebuild from the cast complete mirror, but in-flight changes would not necessarily have been written to both sets of tables.
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