Helping a friend fix his daughters iMac

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Hello everyone and thank you for any help you can offer.

I'm working on a 2008 iMac Core 2 Duo A1225 EMC 2211

We don't know what she did to it, but it won't boot to the desktop.

It boots to a screen with 4 options:

Restore From Time Machine Backup
Reinstall OS X
Get Help Online
Disk Utility

I tried reinstall OS X, entered my apple id and password, came back and said the service is temporarily unavailable, or something like that.

Disk utility shows (attached image)

I tried to boot from a 10.5 DVD , but it just showed an O with a slash through it, as if to say, no way pal.

What should we try next?

Thanks

diskutil.JPG
 
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M1 Mac Studio, 11" iPad Pro 3rdGen, iPhone 13 ProMax, Watch S7, 2018 15" MBP, AirPods Pro
From the image in your post, it appears the hard drive has died.
 

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