I fried my laptop, orange soda completely shorted out my computer. It won't turn on and is completely unresponsive. Here is my problem. I'm going to school in the caribbean (I'm not complaining about that) and I live in a country that is barely above a third world country. As you can imagine, there is no circuit city or compusa here. Here is my problem. I have TONS of things on my hard drive (I think that the hard drive avoided getting damaged). Important things for school, plus movies, pictures, and music. I am planning on ordering a new laptop and I was wondering if there is a way to transfer my old hard drive onto a new computer (most likely a new laptop)? And if it is possible, what kind of cables and connectors would I also need to order? My old computer was a toshiba satellite. Thanks for your help!! p.s. what Brand of laptop would you suggest?

Contact Toshiba. That page lists many options to contact them for help. Send them Email and they will respond in about 2 days. So send many Emails to many different tech. departments. Don’t write the same message. I bet they get you up and running.

OR I come to the caribbean and fix it for you. :-) nice trip i think from europe I have a conector to put a Laptop HD in to a normall (PC) IDE cable. maybe you can search for somthing like that

This is what you need. Laptop Hard Drive Converters I don't leave home without mine. KTTD