Man, it's a bummer when that happens. Don't bin the Hard disk just yet though. At least when you've rebuilt your machine with a new disk, try to see if you can slave up the old drive (this is assuming that it still spins up) ... at least that way, you might be able to salvage some data from it.
An alternative (but very expensive) method would be to get in touch with a local data recovery specialist to see if they can salvage anything.
Good luck!
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