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You could simply have a dead disk. They do that from time to time. And dead disks can sound odd.
Have you tried booting off a CD? Maybe try booting from a CD or floppy. Then see if you can read key, do a checkdisk or something.
If the hard disk is gone - not much you can do. If that was the case... I'd tend to install on a new disk then mount the old disk as a secondary. Finally I'll attempt to copy all files that are still accessible.
Obviously - if it is a disk failure and you have a backup, that is ideal.
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