Mac OS freezes - strange clicking sound from hardrive

Hey guys,
I recently had problem with starting my Tiger OS, therefore I decided to reinstall it after few disk checks (the hd appears to be good - at least this is what Disk utility says).
Of course the installation didnt go smoothly, or the way I imagined it to go, but I eventually managed to install Tiger on my Macbook.
Now I want to install some software updates, but my macbook freezes everytime I try do something, I can hear a strange clicking, I guess it might be my HD.
But my Windows partition works completly fine... is it possible that Mac's partition is somehow broken?

I had an iBook with a hard drive that failed to the point that it would not boot anymore. It would not even allow the installer CD to install a new OS onto it.
I put the drive in an external enclosure, plugged that into my MacBook, then on the MacBook run a program called Data Rescue II. With that I was able to recover everything that was on the failing iBook HD.
The reason for the HD failure was bad bearings. the bearing noise was extremely loud by the time all was said and done but Data Rescue II was still able to salvage everything.

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clicking sound from the upper left hand side of the
iMac.
I have run hardware test, it took an hour or so, and
there is nothing wrong with the harddrive. I have
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are still there.
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The serial number is inside the range for the Repair
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