Froze and now just a file icon appears on start up

...and now using a back-up hard drive to restore Lion but when it searches for disks to install the rrestore on it can't locate the desktop hard drive. Is it toast???

Start your machine while holding both the Cmd and R keys down. This should boot your machine from the recovery partition of the hard drive.
From the recovery partition, you can access Disk Utility etc to try and repair your drive, recover Lion from a back up or install a fresh copy of Lion.
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