What would cause a hardrive failure?

We turn on the computer and all it shows it a white screen with a blinking ? in a folder icon. Supposedly this means a hardrive failure? We didn't do anything out of the ordinary with our computer. Any ideas what would have caused this? Possibly a virus?

improper shutdown.
need to choose Recovery partition and repair the directory, if not more.
the Startup Disk control panel setting was "lost" for some reason (zapped PRAM or did an SMC Reset or other).
It could mean lots of things, incl. a bad sector, or bad file system.
You should have some backup sets. Be able to restore and/or reinstall the system.
After using Disk Utility to do Repair Disk, you should try holding Shift key and doing a Safe Boot next time too.

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