Laptop died, anyone good with hardware?

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So I unplugged the laptop and left it. I came back to it later and noticed that it was making a clicking noise (even though it's turned off). I picked it up and again the right back corner of the laptop was very hot. So I quickly whipped the battery out and the clicking stopped.

The clicking noise is your harddrive. The same happened to my Ipod, it wouldn't turn on and would simply make a clicking noise while trying to start. The rest of your machine may be fine. It is hard to tell. Can you extract the harddrive in anyway and try to attach it with IDE-to-USB cable to another machine to see if it is working?

Edit - Although I have heard of cases where the PSU may make a clicking noise, did you pinpoint where the noise was coming from? Hopefully it is your PSU, as you will be able to salvage your HDD if that is the case.