HD noisy (grinding away); internet pages take a long time to load, is there a "defrag" operation with macs?

is my hard drive dying? everything takes forever to load, sometimes letters don't show up as i am typing. My computer is about 5 years old. Help.

Go to your Home folder (the one with your name) > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility, select your HD and run Verify Disk. See what it says. If the disk needs repair, you can restart and hold down cmd-R as soon as the grey screen appears on restart. This will take you into Mac OS X Utilities and allow you to repair your startup disk.
Also, if you don't have everything backed up, back it up NOW.
If all seems okay with the hard drive, download Onyx (free) and use to it clear all of your system caches, indexes, etc. This will speed up your computer pretty significantly, especially if you've never done that.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx

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