A few days ago my wife foolishly opened an email from the customs department which after a bit of research contained a virus which is circulating. Basically I cannot use the laptop, however there are files on there that I would like to save. When I boot up the PC it goes to the Windows loggin screen and when I try to get past this it starts to dump physical memory then reboots. I've tried safe boot etc but exactly the same. I've also tried to reinstal windows as a REPAIR but still the same problem. Is ther anyway of clearing the virus without being in windows? I would like to save the files but I also really need to use the laptop again so if there is NOTHING that can be done then I will have to reinstall windows and start again.

THANKS,
Richard.Do you have another computer?

If so, you might need to hook the current hard DRIVE up as a slave on the other computer.I have a desktop PC. Is ther any simple way to hook up the laptop drive to a normal PC?You will need something like this:


2.5" laptop HDD to IDE CONVERTER

(thanks Patio)