IBook G4 making wierd noises

ok, well my computer is howling/clucking at me. it howls (like a wolf) more often then it clucks (like a rooster), but it is extremely loud and is very annoying. Sometimes it does it when I have firefox open, sometimes when stickies are open, and sometimes when nothing is open. If anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Well there are only two things in the iBook that have moving parts and it doesn't sound like the fan. It must be the hard drive.
Back up immediately.
The howling can be the lubricant going dry and the clucking could be the search head slamming into the end stop. What does SMART say? (run disk utility select the drive >S.M.A.R.T. is the lower right)
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IBook G4 making wierd noises

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