Last night I come home from work and the screen on my PC is blank. I move the mouse around and nothing happens. I decide to reboot the PC... and briefly a little happy face icon appears (kinda like the Capital J in WingDings). Next reboot the PC wouldn't Rebooting from the XP cd and it essentailly asks me to reinstall it. When I go to do so it comes back with an error message stating that there isn't a mass storage device on the PC. Now I'm hoping the virus didn't wipe my hard drive clean and instead simple changed something so the PC doesn't recognize it. PC is about 10 monthes old. The ironic part of this is that my ISP recently started offerring a free antivirus/firewall solution to all of it's customers. To install it I had to first remove the antivirus/firewall software I had originally purchased. I guess this was a hard lesson in you get what you pay for. Anyhow any ideas? Suggestions? Opinions? Is the hard drive cooked? Or do you think it's simpley not been seen?

check connections and cables, try rebooting in safe mode(f8), try system restore, (if available) prior to date of errors occuring, try adaware scan and virus scan in safe mode, check destop propreties > ,