my HD's busted! (again)

Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!!!!!!!
FUUUUU!"#$"$&#$&#&($#"#$k!
What the hell happened???
My HD suddenly stopped working! I just replaced it last April, God... The last one stuffed up the same way too. Is this typical of SATA harddisks?

First everything slows down to a crawl, even opening "my computer" takes a full 10 seconds. I thought I had a virus... my task manager showed very little CPU activity, below 50%, so if a process isn't what's slowing it down, something must've gone horribly wrong with the hardware.
Tried scanning my disks, but no virus was found. Everything started to fall apart when I restarted Windows. It just went downhill from there on.

Now it's completely dead... piece of junk! Well my last harddisk lasted for 3.5 years... that's not bad, but this one is barely out of its packaging! It's ridiculous, I hope I'm still covered by the warranty.

Everything was fine until yesterday, I didn't do anything out of the ordinary such as kick my CPU or spit on it. Did my new PC configuration have anything to do with it, I wonder. It shouldn't... since when is upgrading your PC hazardous to your harddrive???

SATA's the way to go they say... IDE's era is over, they say. I never had this kinda problem back when I was using IDE.

This is bullshit. I gotta take it to the shop tomorrow afterwork or I won't be able to finish my assignment. At least I didn't save it on that damn thing, in fact I haven't installed that many applications yet... which is a blessing in disguise that the HD broke now rather than later, I guess. But still it's such a hassle to reinstall windows again. I just did that a few days ago!!! (sob)

Can't do my office shit on my notebook, that's for sure.