HDD virus

dc157_1

dc157_1

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I am currently upgrading my computer. New motherboard, processor, ram, power supply and case. The reason im doing this is because I had a major virus and it screwed my entire system over. I got sick of dealing with it so thats why im upgrading. The only thing that I am going to transfer over to my new computer is the 2 hard drives. I have an 80GB and an 250GB. Im going to reformat the 80GB to load Windows and im keeping the same info thats on my 250GB, not reformatting it because there is some info i want to keep. I was wondering if there was some way that a virus can transfer over to my new setup because im using the same hard drive? I don't want that to happen at all.
 
Reformatting doesn't completely erase your hdd, just the directory. Infected files can still be recovered during defragmentation. I would recommend using killdisk or eraser. Killdisk isn't free but it works better. Eraser is free and can be downloaded here: www.heidi.ie/eraser/
 
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How was the 250GB drive used in the old system? Even if it was an external drive or internal secondary drive and you downloaded files from the internet and copied them to the drive, you could still have a the virus.
 
I had an 80GB hard drive, the virus screwed it so bad every minute the virus made 1 GB disappear. I reformatted it and it works well now... but does it still hvae a virus?

The virus also made a blue screen come up on the desktop that said: Windows has detected a virus, your wallpaper has been turned off. Or somethig like that
 
oscaryu1 said:
I had an 80GB hard drive, the virus screwed it so bad every minute the virus made 1 GB disappear. I reformatted it and it works well now... but does it still hvae a virus?

The virus also made a blue screen come up on the desktop that said: Windows has detected a virus, your wallpaper has been turned off. Or somethig like that[/QUOTE

It will be fine now.
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madtownidiot said:
Reformatting doesn't completely erase your hdd, just the directory. Infected files can still be recovered during defragmentation. I would recommend using killdisk or eraser. Killdisk isn't free but it works better. Eraser is free and can be downloaded here: www.heidi.ie/eraser/
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Can you elaborate a little on this? How can virus be recovered with defragmentation without the directory. Never heard this before.
 
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