Long Shot - Laptop help

[Rugrat]

Open up your desktop, I'm assuming you have a sata slot as laptops use sata HD'S (sata runs on cable instead of ribbon with black plug like connectors at the end) hook your HD from your lappy to it and it should boot from it (you may need to change bios settings but I doubt it. It will be looking to boot from HD)
that should put you into the OS of your lappy HD if not then HD is screwed. And like said you can use seagate or easeus to recover data from it, unless you hear clicking noise coming from it then it's utterly buggered.

? I'm declaring victory now having got this far. I can't find anywhere to plug the HD in, maybe because my desktop is about 7 years old (but still works perfectly) and have exceeded my own laptop repairs for dummies expectations. Think I have enough evidence of the problem and thanks for your earlier in post #27 which prevented me from lobbing it in bin!