My old eMac doesn´t find the hardrive

After restart my eMac it appeared a folder with a question mark. I think my eMac doesn´t find the hardrive. I have tried to reinstall the system but of course it happens the same, it doesn´t find the disc where to install.
I restarted pressing ALT and then appears two arrows but nothing happens when I click on them.
Please, what can I do?
Regards.

It sounds to me like your hard drive has failed.
you'll need to get it repaired. They may or may not
be able to recover your data... I hope you have a
backup system.
Sorry mate.
Yes, fortunately I have a backup of everything and I have a iMac Intel Duo Core... what´s strange is that this has happen to me four times and the only way of recover the eMac was to format the hardrive. I think this time I going to change it for a new one.

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