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Are you hearing "evil noises" such as the tick of death (ie: a pinging noise coming from your harddrive), or anything like that?
It sounds more like your OS got hosed by a virus or something else and/or your harddrive was very fragmented and/or you've got some program residing in memory that's just devouring every bit of CPU power you have. Of course, all this is assuming that you weren't hearing noises.
If the harddrive is dying, your best bet for recovering the data is to pop it into a friend's computer (a friend with a massive amount of free space) as a secondary drive and copy the data to his computer.
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