blue screen of death

[desfunk]

Being a laptop, it's a lot harder to work with. But the plugging the HD into another computer usually works (just make sure the computer doesn't try booting from it)

I never knew those caddy things existed (i'm sure they did, but not owning a laptop, i've never really looked into anything like that). But that would be great as well.

Normally whenever a virus at home cripples someones system (it's always someone else in the house, never MY computer :p ). I usually just take their drive and clean it up through another system.

Another interesting tid-bit. Sometimes the bluescreen of death is caused by OTHER things (ram, dead components, dying components, etc). Though having a virus points in the direction of windows just getting messed up.