[red-dawg]

If you are "almost positive" that the window that popped up said something about a virus detection, then I would not let your hard drive get within a thousand miles of my repair shop. The truth hurts sometimes and IMHO you are SOL. The last thing I would want to do is let the virus propogate.

However, as a last resort I would have a pc that I did not care about handy and use it to install your drive into to try and save the files. Or I would use a program called LapLink to connect the two together and transfer them.

But at this point you gotta take what you can get.

[RedWing9]

The last thing I would want to do is let the virus propogate.

Nice repair shop you got there. You can't even hook the drive up as a secondary drive on another WinXP machine with an up-to-date virus software??? Where is that shop, I want to recommend it to all my friends...