Re-install the pan without the front metal cover plate and bolt the fan in place on the bottom with the intake facing up into the pan. Install hard drive using the mounting brackets. Please take your time, clean your layout tools, use a center punch, yattah, yattah, yattah I used a small square, and a good carpenter s compass to layout mine. Drill them out and take a larger drill bit and rotate it by hand on both sides of the holes, cleaning the edges of the holes. Wash the cover and re-install.
Life is sometimes unkind.
Just like you and I, hard drives are born dead and are just looking for the right place to lie down. Keeping it cool and clean are the best things you can do to extend its life. Never smoke, or allow anyone else to smoke, around your computer. My Starfighter already has a heat sink on it. Do not use super glue, Elmer s glue, epoxy, or any other silly idea you have come up with.