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Jinnkai, pick up an external SATA enclosure. If you're lucky you'll find a tech adapter that has USB to all of SATA and big and small PATA. A full enclosure is $40-$50 and the plain adapters go for <$30.
Next, if it's a hard drive problem do not keep powering it up. Yours isn't likely dying from age issues but it is not worth cooking your data in the hopes it'll randomly work again. Get a plan, the tools, and move very carefully. I've seen numerous cases of power-up-itis that meant recovery moved from simple copy operation to having to crack the case. At that point costs skyrocket and success rates plummet.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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