Crashed and now "my" hard drive seems to be called MATSHITADVD-R

Computer froze so I forced it to shut down and then upon restart all i had was a grey screen with a folder and flashing question mark. I went to disk utilites to try to repair what went wrong and now it shows my hard drive as being called MATSHITADVD-R any ideas? Is all of my info lost?
Thanks

Hi mwafle, and a warm welcome to the forums!
That means your Mac isn't seeing the Hard drive at all, most likely dead, they last very few years anymore, sorry.
That is your CD/DVD Drive.

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