White Screen of death / Hard drive not showing up on my MacBook

So i get this white screen whenever I boot up my Macbook, and this recently happened. I've been reading a bunch throughout this site and others alike, and seems like this tends to happen often after playing with Boot Camp.
I do recall messing with Bootcamp settings yesterday, and then today while I was working on something, my computer suddenly froze. I had to do a hard crash (held down the power button) and then when I restarted, my computer started giving me the white screen. I am not getting the Apple logo or the spinny wheel. I just hear the ticking/beeping sounds and thats it. I found this other post
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6635935&#6635935
and I felt like it was exactly my situation, so I followed the procedure about putting in the leopard installation disk and going to disk utility. When I put the disk in, it took VERY long to actually detect the disk and then it showed me some progress and I got the boot from disk icon. I clicked that and went into Disk Utility as stated in the discussion, and I only saw the dvd drive listed in there. When I tried to just install the OS again, on the install to location page, there was no hard drive icon. I am freaking out because all my photography is on this computer atleast from the last couple of weeks that has no backup so far!
Does this mean that all my data is LOST? That would really suck!
Any help is appreciated and a Mac Newbie would really be thankful!
Looking forward to some responses as soon as possible because I really need some of the stuff from that computer, and just can't afford to have the data lost!
Is there any way to remove the macbook hard drive and put it in an external casing to just access it from another computer so I can back up all the data, and then just erase everything. I usually do that whenever my windows computers have problems! Thank you in advance

I love my macbook!!!! wrote:
I don't suggest you take the disk the out by yourself. You could damage the whole system and you might have to by a new one.
I have to address this - removing the Macbook hard drive is not only remarkably easy, it's also perfectly allowed under the Apple warranty, and in fact Apple gives you step-by-step instructions here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacBook13inch_HardDriveDIY.pdf
If you didn't get any help at the Store, your idea of putting the drive into an external case is definitely a good step I'd try to get the files to another Mac. (Note that a PC won't be able to read the Mac's drive unless you have MacDrive installed.)
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