computer crash

Last week my computer crashed really bad. Windows won't start now. My friend tells me I have to take out the hard drive and get some enclosure thing so I can plug it into the USB port of my other computer and try to copy the data off of it. I didn't bring my external HD to Korea cause I didn't have room for it and its almost filled up. I hadn't gotten around to getting a new external HD here yet. Most of my photos are on Flickr, so if I can't get anything off the HD I won't lose too many photos. Still theres enough stuff on it that I have to try to save it. It totally sucks.