iMac reboot on Snow Leopard OX disc
For about a month I've started getting the flashing question mark/folder icon. I thought it was resolved last month when I did some disk utility repairs, but today it would not even boot up. I added the Snow Leopard OX disk and it did boot to it. However, going to the Disk Utility it does not find my hard drive. Not sure what to do now. Is my computer toast. The bad thing is that a week ago I disconnected time machine because I noticed my computer moved really slow when it kicked in. So I'm off work for the holidays and I thought I would back up all the latest to my external HD this week, now this. Please advise. I don't have a laptop right now so using my husbands for this forum request.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)