Harddrive has become louder

My year old macbook's hard drive has no doubt become louder. Until about a month ago, the thing was so silent, I couldn't even tell if it was on. When I attempted to upgrade from OSX 4.10 to 4.11, the harddrive started to "whir" loud enough to be heard from 5 feet away. I ended up going back to 4.10 to attempt to get rid of it, but the "whir" noise is still there. I ran my own tests and also took it to apple and they said nothing is wrong with it. I don't experience and performance issues, it just really irritates me that it use to be dead silent and now I have to listen to my hard drive all day long. I am posting here just to see if anyone has any ideas. Thanks very much in advance! PS, its a pre santa rosa core2duo, 2GHZ, 2GB RAM, and 160 HD 5400rpm.

There should be nothing that a software upgrade would do to increase that kind of noise.
I've had hard drives make assorted noises as they aged. It just happens. I've got a hard drive in my iBook G3 600 that seems to shriek but I doubt it's due to anything from the OS. Depending on the noise, it could be a sign that the drive might fail.
I know a lot of people get frustrated from hard drive problems, but they do get louder as they age and fail due to any number of reasons. Just make sure you've got a good backup strategy.

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Hi,
I was trying to save a copy of my iphoto library by copying images to my external harddrive. I wasn't sure how to do it, realised the hard drive is not compatible. Now the iphoto library wont open and reads "iphoto library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable".
I have tried to use options command and click on iphoto then rebuild yet nothing happens and same error message occurs.
I have gone to my personal drive, desktop, iphoto library, and found file Albumdata.xml and when i click on it, there is a lot of text in it, i am assuming these are all my photos.
I have tried clicking and dragging this file to iphoto app and it doesn't work, as the same error comes up in iphoto being in use or unreadable....
What am I meant to do with albumdata.xml file and how do I reopen Iphoto from here on in?
Please help as I am not technically minded and still trying to understand how to use the Macbook at all as I am used to Microsoft.
Thank you very much,
KS

Rule Number One - NEVER go directly uinto the iPhoto library - there are no user servicable parts in it and making any change no matter how small can corrupt your library and cause data or photo loss
Exactly how were you trying to save a copy of your iPhoto library?
Albumdata.xml does not contain your photos - and again NEVER make any changes to the content of the iPhoto library - no dragging - no changes - never go into the library
We need to know exactly what you did
And probalby the easiest solution is to load your backup from before you messed things up
For reference after you get things working
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

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Check the status of your browser plug-ins here and update.
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Fix #1
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Fix #2
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When I try to open iPhoto I get a window dialog that says...
Your photo library is either in use by another application or has become unreadable
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I have tried the reopen it while keeping the Option and Command keyes pressed.
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I dee nothing but a blank page,
Any help would be appreciated.
Also hace back ups of all images on cd's. dvds and jump drives.
Any advice is appreciated.

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
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Option 2
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