I need help! After a week of frustrated troubleshooting I have discovered that my HD is going, going, gone. Well, that is unless you standit upside-down and like yer left finger,.....

Anyway, I bought a computer that came without any backed up images. (shame on me) and I refuse to spend an extra $100 because my HD decides to go south. If I boot linux and successfully mount the drive I can see all the files, but can't boot XP up. It's dying even in safe mode and cycles back around to constantly reboot. <== this is when the drive is being good, other wise I just get " OS not found" or "ERROR LOADING OS".

HELP? I have my own brand new copy of WIN XP PRO but it's an upgrade version.