Laptop sounds like a chainsaw

My laptop makes like a wierd grinding noise. I took it in for repair less than a week ago and the fan was replaced. However after getting it back it has returned to its usual grinding noise . It will make the same noise every couple of seconds. I have recorded a video of the sound and uploaded it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfkICMGyxH8, could it be a problem with the hardrive as I have read somewhere else, please help

I agree, that isn't coming from the Hard Drive, I've never heard a hard drive make a sound like that. When you got it back from repair did it make that sound right away or did it take a while? Is it making the exact same sound that it was making before you brought it in? Where was it that you got it repaird at? I ask because it sounds like it is coming from the fan, but if it was just replaced, then there is something that the fan is hitting or something, but I doubt that. Almost sounds as if a bearing in the fan is gone and that is what all that noise is about. Just making sure that they actually replaced it!

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