emac no startup disk?

[DAmiiEn]

My emac doesn't seem to be working properly, it starts up but nothing shows up on my desktop except the dock, and the finder isn't workin so i can't access my harddrive. i tried to reinstall Panther but there is no destination to install to in the menu...i have documents that i wanted to back up and i can't even access them, how do i get my finder to recognize the harddisk?

 

[Stonesoldier]

sounds like a hard drive failure
Ive had a little experiance with Imacs
and that same thing happened to one of them
turned out to be a dead harddrive