Help: Macbook won't reboot, can't reinstall OS

My MacBook hung in Quark Xpress 7.01; could't force quit, had to shut down by holding down power key. Since when MacBook has failed to revive. It won't restart on its own. Installer Disk 1 Repair Utility fails to find the hard disk to repair; it cannot find hard disk on which to install OS; hardware test using extended testing shows no hardware fault; any thoughts?
Dave

try to restart while pressing "option" key, and when it started, see if the screen shows 2 option (OS from HD and OS from disk).
If there is only one shows (OS from disk), maybe you have a faulty HD.
Try to reset PMU and see how it goes, and if that still fail, try to reseat the HD.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook/diy/order.html
and click on upgrade the HD, but you just re-seated that not replacing it.
Good Luck.

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