Hidden hard drive after update

Okay, so I finally performed the software updates that have been popping up everyday. I did it this morning and installed five updates. One was for iTunes, one was a Mac OS X Snow Leopard update and the I can't remember the other three. I went through all the normal steps and restarted the computer. The first 5 minutes were fine and then.... Safari couldn't open new window, application error, spinning beach ball of death, safari unexpectedly quit, iPhoto unexpectedly quit, iTunes unexpectedly quit, can't open any program. I restarted the computer and got a flashing file icon with a question mark.... re-restarted computer, got it to load desktop and went to disk utilities to verify. It couldn't verify hard drive because of something like "incorrect thread count?" and maybe "node corruption?" I can't remember the exact phrasing. It suggested restarting with installation disk. I did. Now the computer won't even recognize its own hard drive. It won't start without a disk in it and even with the disk in it won't reinstall software because it doesn't recognize the hard drive and neither does the disk utility, it doesn't show up AT ALL. I have never had any problems in my three years of owning this computer, I install this little weekly update and now I have an invisible hard drive. I am writing this from my laptop. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Has anyone heard of it? Otherwise, I'm going to have to take it in to someone.

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