Whining hard drive

[JohnK]

The hard drive in my 10 year old PowerBook (yes, that's right, an APPLE PowerBook) is making a whining noise. It starts out quiet, but after it's been on for awhile it starts to get louder and louder. Sometimes it takes longer to spin up than usual. I should also mention that I dropped it around 5 months ago  , in case that will give you a clue to what's wrong.

[Computer_Commando]

Hard drive bearings are going bad.  Backup everything because it's going to die, soon.

[JohnK]

That's what everyone else said. Just wanted a second opinion. I'm not going to back up anything because there's not anything worth backing up. When it dies it dies. Thanks.
                    -John

[Raptor]

See if you can obtain diagnostic software for it. Just for kicks.

[JohnK]

I know this is a little late now, but does anyone know where I could get diagnostics software for 680x0 Macs?
-John

[patio]

The diagnostics should be for the HDD itself, not necessarily a Mac. Travel to the drive manuf. website.

patio.