Trying to reinstall Tiger but my HD won't mount!

My Powerbook would not boot up. It was stuck at a blue screen after the apple on the white background. Ran Techtool passed all tests and repaired permissions. Still no boot
Tried to run Diskwarrior but it would restart while app was loading.
Decided to reinstall Tiger but the installer is not seeing my hard drive!!! Ran disk utility from installation disk (retail 10.4.6)could not repair volume. Message was directory files should be 2 instead of 3.
Tried to mount the disk but was unable. Said to run utility to repair. Whewwww...
Okay, I have everything backed up, now I just want to start over. Should I erase the hard drive and then try to reinstall? Please help!!!
-Roger
Powerbook G4 800 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

It looks like you're going to have to do that, since DiskWarrior won't run, so you can't tell what might be wrong with the disk. I'd zero out the drive and then restore from your backup if possible; otherwise I'd reinstall from the OS X install discs, then Repair Disk, Repair Permissions, and then update to 10.4.7 using the 10.4.7 Combo Update.
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