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I have always been aware of look alike (phishing) emails no matter where they come from. I always type in the link instead of clicking on one. A couple of years ago my PayPal account was comprised. I was taking care of my mother at the time. (89 at the time) I didn’t have much time to check on my bank account. Never had a problem with it before. Mom didn’t have internet service. A month went by. I did check it out finally. I found two payments were taken out through PayPal. Same amount. $504 each. I checked my emails. Showed two transactions for the same amount. The account names were a bunch of letters and numbers. Both just a little different in sequence. I contacted PayPal and they investigated it. A few weeks later my bank account was credited with the full amount. I called PayPal again asking if this was a common problem with them? Dumb question? Of course it didn’t happen often they stated. What did I expect them to say. Oh yeah….we have had comprised accounts way to often?

Crucial has added their “guaranteed to fit policy” since the last time I bought from them. I ordered a larger hard drive for my mini laptop. Checked the website. Called and talked to a rep who assured me the larger drive would fit. When I tried to install it….it didn’t fit. I called Crucial and explained what I was told by their rep. She said I would then have to modify the casing. I have no repairing of computers experience. Only a laptop keyboard and ram. I bought a cheap repair kit. Soldering iron in hand…decided I was not going to be able to do the job. Called Crucial and asked for a refund of the drive and ram since I was informed it would fit. She said they would only do a credit towards other parts. I said I don’t need other parts. “Give me the name and number please of the President, CEO, Chairman of The Board, or whatever his or her title is. I will call them directly and explain my situation. She said hold on for a supervisor. I asked him the same thing. I want to speak to the “Big Dog”. The “Head Honcho”. “Can we call you right back please?” They did. And offered a full refund.

Looks like you may have a bad disk. Previous Windows folder sharing has nothing to do what you are experiencing.

Weird as it sounds, a friend recently had a similar issue. She solved it by putting the disk in the freezer for a while (in a waterproof bag) and she did manage to get it working long enough to recover the data (I am not joking). Whether you do this or not, I would still prefer to use the disk internally, instead of connecting it via a USB port.

I am not a techie. lol
My daughters hard drive had showed signs of slowly dying on her. I couldn’t get it to run long enough to tansfer files. It kept shutting down after only a few minutes of getting to the desktop. It is a very old drive. 40gb. I wrapped it in plastic and a zip lock freezer bag and froze it for over 2 hours. I laughed at the idea while waiting. Hooked it up and it ran long enough to get documents, music, etc onto a backup drive. And then it dies forever.

Try Combofix. It has bailed me out many times with the nasties.
Download the latest official version of ComboFix (2.8mb) save to your desktop
http://www.combofix.org/
Also http://www.technibble.com/ has some really good free tools to combat viruses. Check it out.
http://www.technibble.com/computer-repair-tools/
Copy them to a USB drive or CD. They will come in handy.