Help Please - hard drive formatting/back up problems

Hi- I'm new around here- I need advice-apparently I know just enough to get myself into trouble or a panic
One problem is turning into several. I'll start at the top.
I have a G4 Tipowerbook 30GB 512ram bought in 2001. OSX 10.3.9
-Original problem: Hard drive seems to be going bad (making clicking noises occassionally) I'm bad never have backed up mainly due to $ so finally scraped up enough cash bought a newer tech. mini stack 160 GB external drive to back up to and a new internal 80 GB HD to have installed.
-Downloaded Carbon Copy Cloner to back all up to new drive. When I recieved the new drive they had already put some files (old mac commercials shareware etc1.5 GB worth) on it. I thought this indicated it was formatted. So I started out with the cloning- 6 hours later bar still indicated that not very much progress had been done. I started reading ccc troubleshooting info and it strongly stressed formatting/zeroing all new disks even if you think they are. I stopped the clone-(actually it looked like there was more copied than indicated by the progress bar but not much.
-14 hours later and the zeroing progress bar in Disk Utility shows maybe 1/10 of the way done.
Concerns:
- is this normal?
-Is the slowness due to perhaps a bad hard drive? If so (remember I don't have anything backed up) could this activity make the drive crash -working for so long? any othere options to take?
-Also the new external drive is supposed to be 160 GB why does DU say it is only 153GB where did 7 GB go?
thanks for any helpful advice-

Hi squarebird,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Is the ext HD USB? If so, it is going to take a LONG time to do anything from your PB, as your PB is only USB 1 (very slow). May be too late now, but with a Mac, esp an older Mac with only USB 1, you would want to use Firewire (besides the speed, Macs can't boot from an ext USB HD, but they can from a FW). If the ext HD is only USB and you can't or don't want to return it, you may want to consider a USB 2 PCMCIA adapter, then at least you'll be able to work with the ext HD at USB 2 speeds.

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