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Is my hard drive dying?

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ChaoZ

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Earlier I had my computer on sleep mode. When I woke it, there was no signal to the monitor. I had to power off the computer. When I turned it on, the hard drive sounded like it was turning off then turned back on; this happened three times.

I was still not getting anything on my monitor, but the computer sounded like it was powering on normally. After a few minutes, I finally get the windows starting screen. Is it time to start looking for a new hard drive?
 
It's a Dell (Inspiron 530) so I'm not sure on the specific components.

Edit: Totally forgot about Speccy:

Operating System
MS Windows 7 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 42 °C
Kentsfield 65nm Technology
RAM
5.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 332MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
Dell Inc. 0FM586 (Socket 775) 40 °C
Graphics
DELL 2007WFP (1680x1050@60Hz)
ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) 49 °C
Hard Drives
244GB Western Digital WDC WD2500AAJS-75VWA0 ATA Device (SATA) 33 °C
977GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-00L5B1 ATA Device (SATA) 26 °C
Optical Drives
Optiarc DVD+-RW AD-5170S ATA Device
Audio
HTO STRIKER 7.1
 
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Did you get a error message. go look in event log to see what its telling you in system ans hardware. Hdd give you warning usualy. freezing noisy
 
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