Bluescreen and subsequent hard drive failure?

Wowowlop1

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Posting from my phone for this so please excuse any typos.

I was on my pc doing my normal things (playing World of Warcraft and listening to a podcast) before I decided to do something else. I turned off my second screen and pulled up a website on my other screen, and suddenly got a blue screen of death (BAD_POOL_HEADER). I figured nothing of it, and booted it back up. To my surprise, my Windows 8 PC was now Windows 7. It turns out, my hard drive isn't appearing in bios anymore either. I assume hard drive failure, but I really hope it isnt. I don't have the money to fix something like that right now. Any help is appreciated.
 
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Check all the cables(swap in ones from other drives if you can to test with). If it is still not showing up, it may have failed.

Chances are a failure like that would crash the system.

Hardware can fail in strange ways(and with little notice as you have seen).
Check all the cables(swap in ones from other drives if you can to test with). If it is still not showing up, it may have failed.

Chances are a failure like that would crash the system.

Hardware can fail in strange ways(and with little notice as you have seen).
 
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Wowowlop1

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I've booted into ubuntu, which is telling me through Disks that I have a 1 TB hard drive, 7.9 USB drive (which I'm booting from) and a 1.1 GB Loop Device (which I've never heard of)

I had 3 HDDs (3TB, 1TB, and .5TB) but only one remains now. This almost relieves me, because it leads me to believe that it's not a hard drive failure; it seems unlikely that 2 of my disks would fail at the same time, noting that one is also new.