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[joe.wertz]

I have a 12" 1ghz G4 pwrbook. It appears the hd started making a different sound as the system froze. A steady rythim.
After a forced quit and reboot from the install disc the hd did not appear in the menu. After a week of no power it restarted and I had to reset the date & time. Used it for a few hrs b4 it froze again.
I booted with Disk Warrior and got the hd to appear. DW did its scan & report ok. When I selected repair it froze again. After another reboot the HD didn't appear in the menu. The rythmic sound is there.
Can you help b4 I turn it over to a repair shop?
Thanks,
Joe

 

[eric2006]

This is a classic hard drive failure, assuming the noise is coming from the hard drive.

 

[joe.wertz]

The noise isn't a nasty sound just a different cadence than normal and constant.