My laptop died

So, my laptop died. I was uploading pictures to it on the bus, worked like a charm. I shut it down like normal, and about 15 minutes (no more) later I wanted to boot it up again.

Turns out it won't get past the BIOS. It certainly sounds like my hard drive is NOT spinning up. The only thing I did was create a partition out of unpartitioned space, making that unused and unallocated space a new drive letter (drive Z). That wouldn't have done it, would it? My bootable OS is still on the C drive partition. Anyone with thoughts or ways to help me out? Its an (I Believe) Asus 1000ha laptop with a 160 gig hard drive running 5400rpm, NOT a solid state drive. Anything I can do in the BIOS to fix? Do I have to go inside? Is my hard drive just completely dead?