Unable to re-install Lion

My wife has a 2009 iMac. We recently moved and the hraddisk must have been knocked. Now when the machine boots, it takes along time (a grey progress bar takes about 15 minutes to move across the screen) to boot, we cannot install any new software on the machine or OS X updates. I have tried installing diskwarrior but it will not run. I have tried re-installing Lion but that does not run. I have tried launching in recovery mode (cmd-r) and then erasing the harddisk - that does not work!
The machine is backing up ok to Time Machine. What I really need some help on is (a) how to erase the harddisk in thi scenario and re-install or (b) whether we need a new hard-disk or not!
Many thanks in advance for help.
Regards
Edward

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