I have an iPad Air, Padlock.

I think you had yours around the same time as I bought mine. I seem to remember you posting about it.

The only thing I have problems with is copying and pasting URLS. Such as youtube links onto here, for instance.

Other than that, I love it

You will just need Mr MD to buy you a screwdriver set for Valentines

That's ideal. You can have a good screw tomorrow then.

Crisp!

Your old Hard Drive is probably 2.5" Sata, which can even be plugged (not live!) into a desktop to attempt to get data off it, or as FlowerMyth says, a caddy. What he means by this is a little box (make sure it's Sata version) that will take the drive and a USB lead so basically, caddy is just another name for an external drive that hasn't actually got a physical drive in it yet. All an external drive is is a normal drive stuck in a box (a caddy!).

The problem is if you problem IS the drive has failed and it's suffering the famous click of death, it may well just be completely useless anyway unless your are lucky and somehow the electrics are slightly different in the caddy or it's just your lucky day and it works for a bit enough to get data off, or, small chance your laptop had a failed HD controller.

Personally I'd work out it's just the drive that's broken and if the laptop is still fast enough for you, stick a new 2.5" drive in it and re-install windows. (Probably not an SSD though). If your old drive is still working a bit you can then try to recover anything you can salvage off it.