HELP! MBP is not starting up with a start up disk

My MBP was working fine one minute then all of a sudden, I heard constant beeping. After that it didn't shut down unless I pushed the power button. Upon restarting, I saw a question mark in the middle with a grey screen.
I tried reinstalling OSX leopard cd on it with the disk utility, but it won't even show a hard drive to repair.
I don't know what to do!

everydaysunday wrote:
I just switched to MAC after using a PC for quite some time, and it boggles me that a hard drive can potentially crash so soon.
This is one of those great unknowns that will frustrate most users. Regrettably, "it is what it is." Hard drives fail... and in portables their odds of a head crash are increased due to the constant movement the machine is under (when in use and not in use). Outside of basic common sense (don't drop the machine, make sure it's off or sleeping when in transport, etc.) there's nothing you can really do to prevent a hard from failure. That's why you'll hear some people (both on these discussion boards and who work in IT support) stress the absolute importance of a backup. Heck, I have a backup for my backup and will even store absolutely critical documents in an online cloud solution as well.

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