Ok, so recently my computer has been making a strange clicking noise. A good amount of clicks and stops for an hour or so and then starts up again. Now, I've heard that clicking on a computer is really bad. I'm unsure where it's coming from exactly. But I think that usually means a hard drive thing. I haven't made any changes to my computer, but I'm still a little worried.
I know it's probably stupid to worry, but I have some important shit.
Should I start backing everything up now before something bad happens?
EDIT: Not too long ago, it started clicking and everything locked up. I restarted and I got a disk read error. Holy shit.
I shut down and waited a bit then tried again. Cannot read system OS or something. I waited longer and finally the computer starts to work again. I know for a fact that this machine is fucked up, now.
What is the best way to back up data? I can't burn CDs because the CD burner went out one day. I'm thinking of uploading just the important shit to megaupload or something so I can download it on a new machine.
This thing probably doesn't have much time left...
