So pop quiz for all you computer nerds.   Here's the scenario:

Computer just shuts down.  Like crashes hard, sudden black screen and all.   Power light starts flashing.   Can't even turn the damn thing off.     And the high temperatures that occured probably didn't help at all.

Anyways, upon pulling the plug to get it off.  Opening the case, spray some dust away.    Turning it back on, it would do the standard bootup til it loads Windows.  Thats when everything remains black and only hard drive activity happens.

So I leave it off a while, put a fan to it, and finally after a while, turning it back on and everything seems normal.

Would I be correct to assume I kinda overheated the hard drive?    Would it be a one time stressed thing or a path of a dying drive?

I've had hard drive problems before where it'd just stall and do nothing and that forced a replacement.   Not gonna look foward to needing a whole new one and reinstalling everything.   Though I do still have it under a warrenty, if only I can copy stuff over to a new drive before they jack it.  Though, might need it to permanently die before they'd allow an exchange.  lol

But at least now I run WoW off an older, smaller, seemingly more reliable hard drive.  lol    Guess I should copy some more of the important things over.