My Macbook does not load when I turn it on

My macbook froze and was making a faint buzzing sound, so I turned it off by pushing and holding the power button. When I turned it on, the grey screen popped up and nothing came on it for about a minute. Then a folder with a question mark in the middle came up and was flashing and did absoutly nothing.
Is there any way I can fix this without taking it to the Apple Store??

Hopefully the advice of diagnosing the drive using the system CD will bring you good results. However (as you can see if you browse the forums) there have been quite a few reports of non-recoverable hard drive failures which seem to relate to certain Seagate HDD models as per Retrodata's MacBook-Seagate HDD failure announcement.
If the problem is of that scale, taking the drive to an HDD recovery shop may not help given the gravity of the drive failure, though you might want to try with one that gives free diagnosis. If you have your data backep up or that price is too expensive, at least feel lucky if you are guarantee and let the Apple Store exchange the drive for free (caveat: you might get the same model as a replacement). If not, at least the HDD is a user installable part that can be easily replaced by youself following the MacBook HDD DIY replacement.
Hoping that you get lucky in reviving your hard drive, I would ask you to share with us the rest of your story, either for a glimmer of hope or to pinpoint the failing batch of drives as to lobby for a recall.
Good luck.

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