Damaged Ipod (Harddrive)

Well my ipods hardrive bit the dust. I think my carelessness got the best of me, I dropped my ipod, from about a 2 1/2' height, at first it started skipping songs, freezing on certain songs, then today in tunes a message popped up saying i had to restore it, i did that and no go. When its plugged it, theres no repsonse from the ipod excpet the face that the do not disconnect error comes up, when i try and turn it on its either the sad ipod face or the folder with the !. Sadly my warranty expired, not long ago, I do not have the money to send it to apple, and my only option really is to buy a hard drive for my 4th gen 20 gig and replace it myself. Im guessing its the harddrive because it clicks every few seconds, continuously, non stop until it turns off. Now if I were to buy a hard drive, this would hopefully fix the ipod correct? And if somebody could direct me to a source where i could find out how to safely open my ipod that would be great. I am not computer and technologically illeterate so please dont tell me to send it in or something, because thats not an option. SO basically what Im asking is the harddrive damaged beyond damaged? and if someone could direct me to an ipod disassembly guide. Thanks alot.
Ps. Im sure there a jillion threads about this, but none really applied to my situation. Thanks.

1.There are very few moving parts that make up the IPOD.
The most sensitive part is the Arm used to seek data while the Platter spins.
Treat the IPOD like a delicate watch,
If you drop your watch it may continue to work but eventually it will break.
It can be damaged just like any computer harddrive, as that’s it basically the same, but much smaller.
2. You should be able to go into preference setup and adjust the time between songs ; I don’t understand your question about menus???
3. Being easily damaged is NO. Again treat it like your expensive watch,; get a good solid leather case to keep it in.
4. Your movies will take up different amounts of space 1 depending on the length of the movie and the compression ratio., at the moment I don’t have the approx ratio in front of me, but the info is easily found.
5. The IPOD is the same as most computer drives, it just built smaller in a compact space,
at least the IPOD Video model is.
6. there are many converters on the market tah will covert your movies to IPOD format.
Some will let you use them for free trial, however, I don’t have the link for it at the moment. However this is one link the may help you to start to find what your looking for.
http://www.cucusoft.com/
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