I book G4 (my daughters) won't start up

If I put in disk warrior which I have, will that start up the G4 I book? Or is there a better way to try to get it going? Thanks, Dr. Steve

My iBook G4 is doing what sounds like the same thing. Sometimes it will load OSX and then freeze up, sometimes it will freeze up will loading OSX, sometimes it won't do anything besides play the start noise. I have noticed that if I whack at the laptop in the area where the hard drive is located it will typically work, at least for a while. I am pretty sure it is my hard drive going bad, but it has also been like 2 years since I cleaned everything out and restored it.
If anyone has an idea about what to do I would love to know too.
P.S. It won't even run the restart CD's with out freezing up. But like I said I hit it and then it will work okay again for a while.

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