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<blockquote data-quote="jenna mel" data-source="post: 154951" data-attributes="member: 17676">Background:My husband&#039;s Toshiba laptop with 500GB hard drive (L755) (and &gt;2 gig of our music downloads) got a virus when we went on vacation (12/30/13). The computer became slower and slower and so I turned to Malware tips for advice. We cleaned the computer of the virus, but after I ran a clean up tool the computer would no longer boot. I was unable to retrieve all the music off the HD.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know why the computer won&#039;t boot. I don&#039;t know if the motherboard is toast (the computer has been dropped) or if the hard drive is toast (water was spilled on it a couple of months ago and I changed the keyboard to get it back to working condition). I was able to create a Boot disk from my desktop computer also running Windows 7 and get to a c: prompt on the laptop and run chkdsk /f. I have now ordered the Toshiba Recovery disks, but before I run them I was wondering if I can take the HD out of the laptop and use a cable such as you see on ebay (<a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-To-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-HDD-Hard-Drive-Disk-Adapter-Converter-Cable-Cord-/121255994969?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&amp;hash=item1c3b6ba659" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-To-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-HDD-Hard-Drive-Disk-Adapter-Converter-Cable-Cord-/121255994969?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&amp;hash=item1c3b6ba659</a>) and retrieve the music files. Any info would be helpful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jenna mel, post: 154951, member: 17676"] Background: My husband's Toshiba laptop with 500GB hard drive (L755) (and >2 gig of our music downloads) got a virus when we went on vacation (12/30/13). The computer became slower and slower and so I turned to Malware tips for advice. We cleaned the computer of the virus, but after I ran a clean up tool the computer would no longer boot. I was unable to retrieve all the music off the HD. I don't know why the computer won't boot. I don't know if the motherboard is toast (the computer has been dropped) or if the hard drive is toast (water was spilled on it a couple of months ago and I changed the keyboard to get it back to working condition). I was able to create a Boot disk from my desktop computer also running Windows 7 and get to a c: prompt on the laptop and run chkdsk /f. I have now ordered the Toshiba Recovery disks, but before I run them I was wondering if I can take the HD out of the laptop and use a cable such as you see on ebay ([url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB-2-0-To-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-HDD-Hard-Drive-Disk-Adapter-Converter-Cable-Cord-/121255994969?pt=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item1c3b6ba659[/url]) and retrieve the music files. Any info would be helpful. [/QUOTE]

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