Tecra A2: HDD making funny noises crashing laptop

Today, I turned on my laptop, got into windows, started working when my laptop made a funny noise, like a whoosh kinda noise, n thn my pc froze! i rebooted, but the same thing happened this time on the windows log in screen, i kept rebooting trying to make it work...until it didn't boot n now it just sits on toshiba screen before boot.
The HD LED no longer comes on and i'm stuck on the menu. I opened up my laptop n looked at the hardrive (tho did not touch cos i didn't wanna break it!) n its not loose or anything..but now i can't make it boot, i've tried the recovery cd which i can sometimes get into tho it doesn't seem to work!
Please can soemone tell me how to fix it, preferabley without sending it to Toshiba.

Hi Paul,
It sounds as if your hard drive has failed. Check in your BIOS during the initial POST to see if the drive is being correctly recognised.
You can try to restore the hard drive from the recovery CD (just boot from the recovery CD and follow the on-screen prompts) but this will erase all of your personal data and any programs that you may have installed and return your notebook to its original condition.
If you still have problems then I think you will need to replace the hard drive and re-install your system.
regards,

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