MacBook stuck on opening White screen- help!

My MacBook recently froze while I was using it, so I shut it down by pressing down the power button. Ever since then, whenever I turn it on, it gets stuck on the opening White screen with the apple logo on. I ran a hardware test which said that there was nothing wrong with the hardware, and when I tried to run a disk utility test as advised by the manual, nothing would load on it. If anyone can advise me on what to try next or how to resolve this problem, I'd really appreciate it!

Are you saying the hard drive does not appear in Disk Utility? If so then the hard drive has failed. Otherwise do this:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
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Reinstall OS X. This will not erase the hard drive.

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