Where is my hard drive hiding?

I have been using this old unit (see below) just to scan with my Arcus II scanner and using Photoshop 5.5. (call me old fashion but it's just what I need to scan, no further discussion needed here). MY PROBLEM is I turned my powerPC on 2 days ago and I got the image of a disk with a "?". When I used my install disc to get past this I discovered there is no Hard drive available. If I want to install new software there is no disc highlighted to do so. Is my old reliable finally dead? Is my hard drive, and everything on it, ...gone? Is the unit replaceable?
I'd appreciate any feedback. Condolences also welcome.
PowerPC G3 300MHz 1MB cashe
64MB/6GB HD
24x CD
Made in 1998

The top cover is removed by depressing the two semi-circular buttons under the edge of the overhang on the front cover. While pressing up on the buttons, slide the top cover toward you, until you can lift it up and off the chassis. The hard drive is mounted in a plastic sled that slide-locks in place on the chassis floor. To get to it, you'll need to unhook the plastic baffle to the left that covers the PCI slots. Slide the rear hook slightly to the left, to release it. There's another hook at the front that should come free, after the rear hook is free. Flip the baffle up and over to the left. The sub-chassis with the power supply and CD-ROM drive needs to be released by sliding the plastic interlocking tabs (front & rear) inward. Grasp the metal tab and lift the sub-chassis up and over to the right, making sure that the small plastic support foot (just behind the CD-ROM drive) flips over to support the chassis when vertical. The hard drive is mounted in front of the motherboard. Disconnect the power cable by carefully pulling on the connector (not the wires) and the data ribbon cable by the white mylar pull tab that's attached to its connector. To remove the hard drive, pull up on the plastic sled's release tab (left end of drive) and slide the drive to the left slightly, then lift it up and out of the computer. A replacement hard drive should be a 3.5" IDE/EIDE or Parallel ATA (PATA, not SATA) drive. The internal IDE controller will only recognize a maximum capacity of 128 GBs, so try to find a small (160 GBs or less) capacity drive to avoid unused storage capacity. Larger drives can be used with a Mac-compatible ATA-133 controller card or with a third-party software workaround (requires OS X).

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