Important: My Laptop Hard-drive Crashed

So my Apple Mac hard-drive is toast. :(
It was acting strange last night so I had to restart it but when I tried to, all I could hear was this weird clicking sound that I never heard it do before and the grey screen came up with a folder and a question mark in the middle of it.
Very odd indeed.
I googled (with my PC) trying to find out wtf was up with it and saw that many people had the same problem and nothing could be done about it because the hard-drive was dead and I would need a new one. :(
I only just have it over a year. 1 year and 4 months.
So the warranty is gone. Plus it looks like all my stuff will be lost but fear not I have backed up using Time Machine and copying all my photos into a folder on the back up hard-drive and oddly enough I only just bought the new hard-drive for backing up a few weeks ago. I just got it in time.

Anyhow I rang up Apple and its ended up I will get a new hard-drive for free!!! YAY!!! They will also check and see if they can save anything off my hard-drive so yeah that's good!!! Even if they don't get much I have mostly everything backed up.

Man it was scary it have it happen but I'm glad it happened now and not back when I didn't have anything backed up.
I lost all my stuff once before and that wasn't going to happen again.
Let this be a lesson for all you peoples!!! Back up your computer!!!
I'm paranoid about it now and I will definitely be getting another external hard-drive as well as the one I have to back up. Its really not worth losing all you're stuff.

So I have to travel into Dublin because it is the closest Apple Store to me (unbelievable you think there would be a closer one but at least I'm not paying for the repair.) I've already emailed the store and waiting for a reply just to be sure they can repair it and I also asked them how long it would take.
I have no idea when I will get back on-line. I can use this computer (my sisters) every now and then but the internet connection is very slow and I hate windows so... I will see anyhow.

I will let you know more soon. keep an eye on my twitter cos I can update it with my phone and it will have the latest info.

Talk again soon.