Pavilion ze2366ea - Hard disc broken after 2 days use :)

I bought the HP Pavilion ze2366ea Laptop day before yesterday for €700 in Germany.

I've been busy installing my own software and partitioned the 80GB drive into three.

Last night I decided to run emule overnight just to see how it copes.
This morning I opened the Laptop and pressed enter to bring it out of standby mode and all of a sudden there's a tinny clattering sound from where the harddisc is located and the Laptop doesn't respond.

Anyway its the harddisk, its irrepairabley broken. And that's just after two days. It was a bad performing 4200 anyway but it's a brand bew notebook. How can this be?

Did the emule break it? I doubt that, my friend runs emule on his and it doesn't have any problems. But I got him worried and he's stopped using emule for the time being.

I phoned the HP helpline to ask for the pickup service and maybe get a better (5400 ) harddisc but they advised me to take it back where I bought it for a replacement.

Now I'm doubtfull if I should get another after what happens when running emula over night.

Could it be that HP are using used/refurbished hard discs in their notebooks? I've read some no-name notebooks do that...

 

Nah, it's just that if something is going to break it'll usually break within the first 48 hours. You were just unlucky. HP's advice was good.