Computer Problems

My hard drive in my computer had a mind of it's own. It started making funny noises and I just thought it was the power supply so I ignored it. Much to my surprise, one day I turned my computer on and it decided it was not going to boot up for me any more. I now have a new hard drive which is very nice but now I get to go through the process of trying to remember what programs I had on my computer and reinstall all of them (one at a time). I love my computer when it works but I'm not looking forward to all the reinstallations.