Hard Drive Crashed - Again

Part 3 of the pigeon egg thing will have to wait since my brand new 100 gigabyte hard drive has bit the dust. Just got it in January and here, 6 weeks later, it's history.
Damn.
Do the words UNMOUNTABLE BOOT VOLUME on a big blue screen strike you as familiar?

It's a Fujitsu drive for my IBM ThinkPad T30. 100GB which I got to replace the 40GB Hitachi/IBM drive that crashed in November.

It started out with funny noises, evolved to reporting bad file record segments (which I briefly fixed with a chkdsk /f and then proceeded to being unmountable.