IBook G4 HD sudden DYing after 18 month.. Apple Times It????

My iBook G4 1 Mhz 12 inch worked perfectly for about 17 month....
All of a sudden i few days ago i started to hear some slight noeses in HD
and today it startet to sound like a Motobike engine!!
After restart same Motobike engine HD noise and no go beyond Apple Logo...
my good friend bought the same iBook at the same time and his HD died two weeks before Warranty end , so Apple replaced it.
What am i to do to safe my Harddisk or Data?
Is Apple times this that we all go and by new product each 2 years ...?
any tips ideas - much, much appreciated
milka

Hi Milka,
...but i got iMac G4 running Tiger, is there a way i could back up my failed iBook HD in FW target mode?
1. With both Macs switched off, connect them together with a firewire cable.
2. Switch on the iMac and hold the "T" key until it goes into FWTDM
3. Switch on the iBook and hold down the Option(alt) key. Within the Startup Manager screen select the iMac hd and click on the arrow.
Dependant on the damage you may not see the iBook's hd on the desktop and it may take several restarts using the above procedure. It's your only way though, given what you currently have, in retrieving the data from your iBook's hd. No guarantees and I genuinely do wish you success in retrieving your data.
There are companies out there who specialise in data retrieval. They charge a lot of money though and give no guarantees of success. I suppose it depends on what value you place on your data as to whether you go down this route or not.
On a wider issue, hard drives do fail regardless of whether they are installed in a Mac or a PC. This is an innescapable fact. Some last months others years but at some point they will fail. This is why it is so important to backup on a regular basis.
I backup religiously on a daily basis... sometimes twice daily. A couple of months ago the internal hd in my PowerBook decided to go "belly up". No problem... I just connected the external firewire hd where I keep an up to date clone of the internal hd and continued working almost virtually from where I left off. When time allowed, I bought an 80 GB hd, installed it in my PowerBook and re-cloned everything from the external hd back to the new internal hd.
Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup, Backup!!!

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