Hard disc crash...???

hi,
my macbook does not start and shows a white/gray screen. after some time a folder symbol with a question mark shows. i started from mac os install disk (10.5) and tried the hard disk utility. it shows the hard drive, but no partition on it. the buttons "repair volume" and "check volume" are greyed out. when i push the "info" button it shows some details and says the hard disk is not formatted.
i did a backup with time machine, but that was a couple of weeks ago. i edited a video film in i guess 50 hours... (CRY!). it cannot be gone.
any tipps apart from "bring the hard disk to a special company charging you $500 and not guaranteeing that they can do anything..."...
pleeeeaaaseee help!
thanks

You could try reformatting your drive from Disk Utility.

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