I THINK ,,,,,,,, my laptop is RIP ,TOAST , wile waiting for my hard drive box to come , should have been here today

,I tied another hard drive in the laptop ,,,,,,ZIP,FOOK ALL ,,,,,,,,not even the Toshiba boot option screen thing came up ,BUGGER

So Its about time I got a new computer , Desktop ,,,,,,,,,,,,But I dont like the look of Windows 8 , anyone out there using it?
Mainly use computer for Solidworks , office , adobe and the web .
Rob