Ok ppl, i got in some big trouble. Heres the story: I have MAC OS 9.1 on an imac. I was surfing the web are all of a sudden the computer froze. I unpluged the computer and restarted. Well, I restarted to a gray screen with a blinking question mark in the middle. I put in my 9.1 install/recovery disk and I got past that, but It took me to my desk top with nothing but two icons, my trash and cd icon. THe wallpaper is full of cd icons. Otherwise there is nothing else. When I click on the cd icon and click on install it gives me an error saying "no destination disk has been choosen". Also I can't get my cd out. I have tried restarting many times. I am totally stumped, any help would be great.

Your mac has lost contact with the hard drive. First I would attempt to open the case, unplug the drive from power and IDE, and plug it back in. Reboot and see. The drive may be kaPuT, and may need replacement. This is thankfully pretty cheap, and you can get a much bigger drive than what you had.

Before you do all that, double click the cd icon. In the Utilities folder, launch Drive Setup. This will scan for any drives connected, and you'll see one that isn't mounted. Highlight that (which is your missing hard drive), and choose "mount volumes" in the Functions Menu. If you can't then you'll have to initialize it, but you'll lose all your info on the drive.