welp....found out what was making that loud clicking noise whenever the computer was at idle. that or like malaka once told me: "windows 7 a timebomb waiting to go off." im thinking its a bit of both. guess thats what i get for not going ahead and buying me drives like i said i was. But on the bright side, other than a few directories and some character write ups, most of my other stuff is on another hard drive. so i didnt lose much. hopefully i can retrieve most of the stuff from that drive though. Anyways, back to reinstalling everything XD