I think my computer is about to crash?

I just updated my iPhone to iOS 7, but before doing so I imported all of my photos to my laptop. I've had it for about two years and I feel that it's about "done for." So I was wondering if there was anyway I could just get my pictures? Can I put them onto a flash drive or something?

Sure just get a flash drive with large enough storage area to back up all important files and reinstall your computer!

You can copy or move them to any kind of storage, flash, ssd or hdd

and why not do a system factory reset prior to the laptop crashing!