Hard Drive Failed - Lost EVERYTHING!

[BP-Revo]

For the last 4 years or so, my computer has been a laptop. I pretty much used it for everything - homework, games, LAN parties, etc.

Just last night/this morning (2am), the hard drive failed. I lost everything on it. I am going to contact a Data Recovery Firm tomorrow for a quote. If it isn't too extreme, then my Dad said we will have them do it. The drive had all my homework assignments, music, personal files, and a large amount of family pictures (whenever the Digital Camera needed room to be made, I was always the one to download the pictures and clear the memory stick, and thus, many of the pictures were on my computer, and my computer only).

This was most unfortunate, because I had just bought a new computer and was in the process of building it (a desktop). I am using it right now as a matter of fact. However, had the computer been done, I would have transferred all my files over and none would have been lost (I was planning to format and reload everything on the laptop anyway). However, the drive failed not even a day before the computer was done.

Needless to say, I'm pretty disappointed.

Anyone else ever had a hard drive failure?