my hard drive

I need to get my pictures and stuff off the hard drive on my laptop. Not sure how I'm going to do this yet considering that I can't turn my laptop on. It does have a removable hard drive so that with help. Also I don't have internet in my room right now because the only working computer that is in my room is the old tower that I loaded linux on in hopes of making it a server. For some reason it didn't like my network card or something so it won't connect to the internet. I guess I'll just have to put XP back on it. :( At least it should work that way.