Wow! That's a bummer. Have you checked it out with seatools dos??
I've never lost a hard drive. Do you have data you need to recover??
Not yet, I plugged it into an USB enclosure into another computer and Windows wouldn't pick it up. Only the enclosure was detected and installed.
I'm hoping you have a back up image of your OS. It would be a piece of cake if you have a image on a external drive. Starting from out of the box is not some thing I enjoy doing. I haven't done that in a long time.
Nah Windows has just done installing, Now I am installing drivers and programs. The longest will be Windows updates. I am using a 500GB but will look to get a new 1TB drive or a new laptop. I didn't have anything important, Only music and videos which I've backed up in the last few days and I don't have any or many photos stored on it. I can re-download my games.