Computer problems

I awake this morning to a message of impending doom from my computer. Basically it said that our hard drive is about to fail. So I've spent the last couple of hours backing up all our files and pictures. I think part of the problem is all the pictures and digital scrapbooking files I have on the hard drive, so I'm going to get an external hard drive to move all those things onto. Then I can try to repair the hard drive. OR something like that. Hopefully it won't be something fatal. But if no updates for a few days, that's why.