Been having Hard Drive Problems

I've been experiencing hard drive problems recently and this started 2 weeks ago. I'm not an expert in the hardware department (bare with me) but I own a 2.26ghz 2009 MBP and the hard drive has been fine up until recently. Not gonna lie, it's performance has decreased significantly over the years and Mountain Lion slowed it even futher.
Anyway I noticed it lagged after waking it from sleep; to the point where it wouldn't respond for longer than 10mins. I had to force shutdown several times, and was afraid of putting it to sleep in fear of encoutering the same problem over and over again.There was one day, where this happened , and it just died on me. Upon bootup, a logo appeared (circle with a cross through it, something to do with startup files?) so I force shutdown again, but everytime afterwards, I'd just get the grey screen of death.
At first I thought it was a virus, but then I took it into an Apple servicing store (I live in NZ, we don't have any apple stores) and they said it was the HDD. Long story short, I got a new HDD, plugged it in and proceeded to reinstall Snow Leopard. When I went to disk utility, it wouldn't even recognise the new HDD. I had the same problem when I tried to reinstall Snow Leopard to my old HDD (before I figured it was a dying hard drive).
My new drive is a WD Scorpio Blue, brand new. It should have no problems with being recognised right?
I've come to the conclusion that it has to be the SATA cable right now, but does anyone have any suggestions? If it is the cable, is there a specific one I should be looking out for? I'm still in HS so money is a bit of a problem. I just need this fixed so I can do my design work

One way to test is to place the HDD in an external enclosure and the boot the MBP with the Snow Leopard install disk. If it appears in Disk Utility, then the internal connection is probably at fault. A new cable should not be an expensive proposition.
Ciao.

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Hi m,
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I am sooo frustrated I really want to put my laptop on the pavement and run it over a couple of times. Lately I have been hearing the tell-tale signs of a bad hard drive. The little scratching noise from the lower left side of the computer - next to the track pad.
Off to Apple I went and unsuprisingly I was told AGAIN how it is a piece of electronics and they are always subject to going bad.. blah.. blah.. blah.
Problem is, I heard this same song and dance in Nov. 2010 when they replaced it the first time. Of course, my 90 day (go apple) warranty is long gone. How likely is it that I would end up with the 'same' problem twice (sales guy told me 2% of people have a hard drive go bad)?
I am not 'taking' the computer anywhere - living room / bedroom. No kids / no pets / no liquid or food on it. Never overheats / only use a couple of hours a day. In 20 years of owning computers (always lower end compared to this) I have NEVER had to replace a hard drive, much less two within 30 MONTHS!
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Before you run it over with the car, please contact me. I'll be happy to take it off your hands and save you the trouble.
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Even if you still want to "cut your lossses," installing a HD for less than $75 to create a working MBP and selling said MBP is going to make far more sense than running it over, giving it away, or putting it on the shelf, and will net you some cash.

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