Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Laptop Fault (Failure) please help.?

Hi, I'm having a majorly bad week with this one. I took my laptop to college and for the first hour it turned on and worked fine. I then shut it down (via start menu). The next time I turned it on, it didn't want to work. I continued to try to get it working by constantly turning it on and off. The power comes on, the disk tray initiates, and then nothing. The screen stays blank. (I have tried all the function keys). I continued to play around with turning it off and on again, and once out of about 50 times it worked. I tried a system restore and then struggled to get it on again. I finally got it on, and my mother knocked the charger whilst hoovering, so it turned off! :( I continually turned it off and back on again. I then realized that all the lights on the front would come on when I turned it on, except, the Hard Drive light, would begin to flash (as per usual) and then would stop dead....Now it could obviously be a Hard Drive fault, but it could also be the Mother Board (in which case New Laptop). Does anyone have any idea of a way I could get it to turn back on, at least long enough to get: Coursework, Personal Data and some Media files (my iTunes library) to save me a lot of time reloading it all....Or a way to fix it, even for the short term. If not any easy way of getting my lap top's 3.5 IDE hard drive into an external mechanism that will allow me to extract files. Thank you very much for bothering to read this horribly long question.