MacBook Pro making chirping noises

Hello all,
Recently my 15" Macbook pro has been making some strange noises when I put it into sleep mode.
If I either close the lid of my Macbook, keave it too long so auto sleep kicks in or press the 'off' button then select 'sleep' the Macbook will start making a chirping noise. This noise seems to come from the hard drive (I know it's coming from the right side of the track pad). The Macbook then will not wake up, I am forced to hold the power button until it force shuts down.
I took it into the Genius bar and they ran diagnostic and disk utility tests over and over again until they came to the verdict that my Mac's hard drive was running perfectly. They asked me to back up my data and come back in to have it wiped and Lion re-installed. I haven't managed to go back yet and whenever I try to use TimeMachine to backup my data there is an unspecified error. I can't imagine how a software reinstallation could fix what seems to be a hard ware problem?
I was able to keep using my Mac (with the aid of 'Caffine' to stop it from sleeping) until recently. I use a Mac adapter (miniport) plugged into a normal VGA cord to watch movies from my Mac on my Panasonic Viera TV. Whenever I plugged in the mini port the Mac aspect ratio would change (I had it to 'mirror image', not a custom ratio) and when it was unplugged it would change back. However recently, when my Mac starts up it was in the aspect ratio as if I had it plugged in to the TV, the ratio would change back just before the login screen would come up. I took no notice of this as it didn't affect the Mac's performance. Only two days ago, when I started up my Mac a white screen came up. The white screen was in the VGA aspect ratio and was followed by a few 'chirps'. Now my Mac will stay at that screen and will not load. I cannot seem to use any of the recovery start ups or safety start ups.
I am planning on taking it back in to the genius bar but if anyone has a solution it would be greatly appreciated.

That's what I'm starting to resign myself to I was hoping to find a fix without paying tons of money!

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