Interpreting hard drive sounds

isasir

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The hard drive on my friend's computer, when booting up, makes the high pitched spinning sound, and then after a few seconds makes the lower pitched sound like the hard drive has stopped. This is followed by the error:

"Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in slected boot device"

Google searches for that error message yield a wide array of reasons. I'm trying to determine if due to the sound of the HD, that the HD is definitely the problem, or if I should try out all the other potential options. Nothing new hardware-wise has been added to the PC AFAIK.
 

isasir

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Heh whoops, wrong forum. I don't have a shortcut for GH or Tech Support....

But hopefully someone can help me anyways. ;)