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Ibebryan, your system specs list 1 hard drive. How many hard drives/ SSDs do you have in your computer. Which ports are each connected to? A hard drive should not be making a 'grinding' noise. What brand and size of PSU do you have? Please look in bios and give me the readings of your +12V, +5V and +3.3V. If you have an SSD, is the firmware up to date? Please go into BIOS and check your sata controller and remember what it is set to. When you do that press F5. That should be the key to set everything to optimized defaults. After doing that and confirming that is what you want to do, set your ram frequency to manufactures specs as well as the timings and voltage to manufacturer's specs. Set your sata controller to what it is right now. It should be set to AHCI by default, but make sure it is set to what it is right now. Set your boot order, save an exit. If you have an SSD, make sure it is connected to port 0 or 1. If you can do without the grinding hard drive, disconnect the sata data and power cable. Check the other drives cables on both ends to make sure they are firmly seated. If you are overclocking your graphics card, set it to defaults. Also, when is the last time you did a clean install and what anti Virus are you running?