Well, I'm retarded apparantly. Turns out that grinding noise was not my hard drive, but one of the six fans in my pc. Damn that thing is cold inside. Anyways, after getting that fixed and some unesessary files and spyware removed, and a full diagnostic, it only cost me $30. If I had taken it to a retail store for repair, it would have been $60. So coming back on the PC later, cause I am still on the Wii while the system scan/repair runs for a few hours. Gonna look at random youtube stuff and maybe play Sonic Unleashed for a bit. Shut up, Sonic Unleashed is actually a decent game. That guy from Zero Punctuation just sucked horribly at it.