Dead Hard Drive and Purple Screen

Hello all.
I recently updated to 10.4.4, by reformating my drive and putting everything on fresh. I then put just the stuff I use back on. Didn't have any problems along the way, till today. I had the computer set to sleep after an hour, and when I got back from lunch I hit the spacebar to wake it up. There was a Solid purple screen, so I waited awhile then hit the reset button. Then it came up with the question mark folder. I started from the OS disc and ran Disk utility, it sees the other drives but not the main one. The drive doesn't make any unusual noise. Any thoughts?

Is the drive "grayed out" in DU or just not present?
I then put just the stuff I use back on.
Did this include any system stuff?
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