Hard drive failing on brand new laptop?

Hello,
I have an HP 2000-2d11dx that I bought on November 14, 2013. I've been incredibly happy with it as it has done more and worked better than I expected for what I paid for it.
However, I noticed during the past week or so, the disk had been running at 100% capacity, getting more constant every day. It also began showing memory errors as it was booting up or shutting down in the style of 0xc00000000, but I didn't think to write down the exact error codes (I regret that now).
Since Friday (the 11th), it's had three BSOD's, so I began to worry and get a little irritated. Monday night it progressively got worse. The disk was running at 100% constantly. I tried to restart it, which sent it into an 'attempting repairs' loop for about an hour and upon rebooting, everytime I clicked on anything, even trying to open the task manager, I got more of the memory errors as above.
At this point, I began tried to use the PC refresh tool. That failed due to a memory error. Then I tried PC reset and finally HP recovery manager factory reset. Both of those failed due to memory errors. I ran the disk check from the recovery manager. The recovery partition came back fine but the (C: ) drive had a rather long list of errors and hung at 67%. I turned my back for literally a minute and it was done before I could take note of these errors. I know that they said something along the lines of "error and index $I30."
At this point I had to leave for school and shut the laptop down. After I returned, I booted it up to find it "attempting repairs" again. I left it for two and half hours and it finally finished. From there, I was able to finally do a factory reset, hoping whatever was making the disk before run at 100% would be gone. While it's not constantly running at 100%, it's spiking quite a bit occasionally. However, instead of just the (C: ) and the recovery drives, it goes from (C: ) all the way to (I: ), with each drive having a seemingly random amount of space that doesn't seem to quite add up to what it's supposed to be.
And now, according to the HP Support Assitant drive check, the hard drive is failing and should be replaced. I have this error from the drive check:
Failure ID: 9SLFLJ-000000-MFGJXF-60VF03
HP Hard Drive Check detected that your drive has a SMART Check issue. Your hard disk drives have built-in Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) that predicts drive issues. The SMART threshold has been exceeded, and the drive might fail in the future. The failure may be catastrophic, or it may result in the inability to write to certain sectors or in slow computer performance.
Now since this laptop is two months old, would a replacement be covered in the warranty? I plan to contact HP with the 'get assistance' button tomorroe as it's near midnight here. If it is covered in the warranty, how much might it cost to replace the HD? And this is probably a dumb question as well, but I'm new to HP and the customor support, if I call them/chat with them online/whatever, will that cost anything? I'm in college so I don't really have that much cash to spend on customer support stuff, but I have online classes this semester so I need my laptop working as well.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Sorry for your trouble.
It should be in warranty, please call HP service they will check your warrtany status and replace HDD to you.
I work for HP

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