OK, so this thread was made about 15 months ago. The internet problem turned out to be from my cable and the sound from the hard drive just...stopped. Let's jump ahead to the present
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As you can deduce, my computer worked perfectly fine for about 15 months since this fiasco. The hard drive no longer made the siren sound and everything else worked. Since this thread was created and everything started working again, I have moved my computer at least 5 times with no problems. Yesterday, I moved back home from my apartment at school. When I got home and set up my computer, I powered it up and there it was again. Power up the comp and the hard drive begins making a siren sound. Again, I have never heard my hard drive click and it has worked for 15 months since the last time it randomly decided to start making a siren noise.
The hard drive making the siren noise is also the hard drive with the OS installed on it. When I power up the comp, the hard drive begins the siren noise and the comp begins to boot up. It begins to load Windows and the comp restarts a short period of time after it makes it to the screen with the Windows logo and blue bar going back and forth. My Ubuntu live CD boots up fine and, despite not being able to boot up Windows from the hard drive, when using a LiveCD I can read from the hard drive just fine. I'm really not sure what's up or why it just decided to start making this noise again.
Anyone?