It won't even come on. I can't get it to come out of repair mode. So that's dead. And before it died parts of the secondary drive were failing, so the more I ran it the more I damaged the drive.
Checking my backup in the cloud, I did back-up everything I needed. So that part's good.
I am currently adapting with my laptop and an external harddrive.
Darn. That's not good.
Something I've done in the past that really saved me when a Windows install/drive failed was to create a dual-boot machine (Windows and Ubuntu/Linux) - it's easier than it sounds. That gives you another access point to your save files. Ideally, you want to save your files onto a different drive than where your operating system is install - especially when you're dealing with Windows.
Anyway, I hope you get everything you needed. I seem to have lost a nice picture I took last year - and I suspect it was on the laptop that died as I can't account for it anywhere else. (Don't know why it came off the camera, to be honest, as I don't normally delete them from there...)