That extra, empty drive you now have might beįour years ago I bought a HP at OfficeMax. That way I can plug the now extra drive into anyĪnd as a closing reminder: if that drive was the only place you were keeping
In a case like this, I often look at the extra drive as a candidate for anĮxternal USB enclosure. Of room to copy whatever you like back to it. This will erase all its contents, including any malware, and give you lots Copy off your pictures and other data, taking care to avoid anyĪnd then once you have everything you want saved off of the drive, format That means, essentially, don’t double click
So after all that, the last remaining piece of advice? Don’t run anythingįrom the infected drive. If you suspect issues, IĪctually recommend turning of auto-run on all devices, at least until you have Immediate risk if that media has been infected. Then executes the autorun information on the media. As soon as you insert the media, Windows looks for, and This rarely applies to hard disks (though I’ve heard “My actual recommendation is to run an up-to-dateĪnti-virus scan of the drive once you’ve mounted it.”Ī common “gotcha” on removable media – meaning CDs, USB flash drives and the Make sure to catch even the most recent threats.) Important that your anti-virus program’s database of viruses be up to date, to Your scanner reports no viruses, where it did before, you’re likely clean, andĬan copy away to your hearts content. Quarantine any of the files that it finds are infected. Let the scanner actually delete or at least My actual recommendation is to run an up-to-date anti-virus scan of theĭrive once you’ve mounted it. It, as long as you don’t copy or execute any file that is infected with aĪt issue is how to make certain that nothing on that infected hard drive is So, yes, you’re quite safe to mount your hard drive and copy files off of Virus isn’t executed, its mere presence doesn’t actually do anything. The key to viruses that inhabit some kind of media is that they must be run.īy that I mean that some program that contains the virus must actually beĮxecuted on your computer in order for the virus to infect you. But the risk is in what you do after you mount That having been said, your question is a good one: does mounting any disk,īe it a hard drive, DVD, CD-ROM or even a floppy, that contains a virus put Virusesĭon’t harm the hardware in any way that would necessitate replacement. There’s no reason to replace a drive just because it contains a virus. I’m a tad concerned that there’s more going on here than you’ve stated.
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