Ticking sounds when the wold sign on start up

good morning, I need help
this morning I turned on my iMac 20inch intel I heard a ticking sounds, then the world comes up, now normally when the world sign comes up its normally just doing an update or something. but this time nothing. its not going away!
now the ticking sounds makes me think I might need a new hard drive? do you think so too? if so can I replace it, or if I take it to the apple store will they be able to replace it for me?
plz help, and thx for what you'll gonna say.

You should post in the Intel iMac forums here before settling on a diagnosis:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=189
This forum, although poorly labeled, is for the much older G4 "desk-lamp" models and everything inside your iMac is different. It could be something other than the drive, like a fan. Best to ask in the other forum in case it's a known issue. If it's come up before, someone there would know about it.

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