Sounds like bearings to me, which means it is on its last leg.
A HD of this age (say 10+ years?), no wonder, especially if it had some rough 
handling.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   John Perkins Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent:   Tuesday, August 23, 2005 4:37 PM
To:     PowerBooks
Subject:        Re: Hard drive makes whining noise

Just figured I'd tell you that the whining is barely audible when I
first boot up the computer but within an hour it is louder than the
normal noise of the hard drive.


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