Enclosure for hard disk

I have a 410s that is still under warranty and crashed. It doesn't appear to be the hard drive- over the phone support had me run a disk check and it passed. But they want me to return the computer with the hard drive in it and, if there is a problem, they will not do any recovery. Bear with me, I barely know what I am talking about!
i was told to get a hard drive enclosure, put in disk drive and attempt to download files to another computer just in case (these are work files and I need them)
I do not know what kind to get or, from where I can get it quickly. Tried Best Buy today and the young man had no clue.
the drive is Toshiba SSD thns128gg4bAAA nonFDE
i understand the concept and also that if it is a hard drive problem it won't work. But I want to try it and do not know what type of "enclosure" to get as they seem to come in all sizes.
thanks for any help.
kim

Hi Ykckby,
If the operating system is broken but the laptop and drive are more-or-less healthy, you might be able to boot a Ubuntu Linux live CD and copy your files to USB flash.
Z.
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