Equium A300D - maybe my HARD drive is dead

I bought my Equium A300D (I think it's the correct model anyway) of PC World in the year September last after the death of my old laptop on me (fried hard drive because of the processor cooling fan break).

The old laptop, has produced some sounds strange whirring/screeching sometimes for a few months, but I'd rather foolishly ignored it thinking it was just a fan who wasn't quite to the right or something - in hindsight to make a good decision!

My Equium was fine until I turned on this morning and found that he formulated the horrible familiar screeching/whirring sound and I turned off again pretty quickly.

The screeching kicked almost immediately after, I had it working. Three times I tried to turn on the back, with the same result, and it's understandable, I am very worried about it and did not want to take the risk of leaving that he turned on for fear of causing more damage.

Sick computers are never good news in the best of cases, but not at the moment that I went through a lengthy form filling and complex that I have loan on Wednesday. I'm completely it on a pdf version recordable of the form that took me three weeks to finish where I had got up to last night, and even if I use an online backup service, I can not restore files to a different computer without overwriting what is already there, so I'm a little panic. (Also, my Equium has a Vista OS, and my office, I'm currently is still on XP).

Three questions:
(1) makes a whirring/squeal noise as soon as it is lighted sound it could be another hard drive dying?
(2) would be to take it to my local independent computer store (which tend to be able to make minor repairs and put new disks while you wait) rather than PC World voiding the warranty?

I'm not sure what to do for the best, like whatever I do I need to do it quickly, because I have not long until I have to complete this form (and even if I have the online backup, rather stupidly I don't have an external backup of it), and even if I can get the fixed satellite quickly if it's the hard drive , it takes a number of days to download and restore online backup files, which is sometimes I have at the moment.

Any advice would be appreciated.

> 1) makes a whirring/squeal noise as soon as it is lighted sound it could be another dead hard drive?
It's not impossible My HDD makes a completely dead before it too strange noise.
It was a good idea that you have backup your data. In this case you could always recover the data if the HARD drive would really die.

(> 2) take to my local independent computer store (which tend to be able to make minor repairs and put new disks while you wait) rather than PC World would invalidate the warranty?
If you want to get the HARD drive replaced and want to use the warranty, then you should contact the ASP (certified partner) in your country.
Qualified service technician can replace the defective hardware, a free game.

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