Possible to have 1 infected HD and 1......

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Bazzil

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Is it possiblee to have 1 (virus) infected HD and 1 fine HD connected up, without running the risk of infecting the good HD?
 
Eh...yes and no... If your virus scan is good enough, you might get by. If it's one that attacks the boot sector, there's no chance about any virus scan could check it.

Sooo...yes for the most part, but I wouldn't reccomend it. Now, maybe if it was an external drive so you'd already have windows loaded and such, but there's still always that slim chance something could go wrong.
 
Well, when I try to boot (with the infected HD) it says it has no OS and I need to insert an OS disk.....Have any idea what sort of virus would cause this?
 
Sounds like a boot sector virus, or not a virus at all. You could just have a failed partition, problems with the OS, or something like that. Try to find an emergency boot disk and scan it that way.
 
if your infected drive has more than one partition that it might not get to the other clean partition , thats why i do multiple partitions for easier access and little virus protection.
 
A partition is simply a virtual drive, therefore I see no reason it would be any more safe than another drive in the computer...
 
Clearion said:
one hd might be infected wile another hd is not, but also the virus can spread to the non infekted disk;)
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I know that, hence the reason I'm asking if there is a way to do it without infecting the new HD.
 
Just like The_Other_One talking about,it might not be a virus. First of all,how did you know that it is a virus? If you have an updated anti-virus software then you dont have to worry putting your other HD to the allegedly infected one.
 
Well I assumed it was a virus becuase A) I used to download a LOT of videos and B) I never went into all that OS shit that could've deleted the OS.
 
The_Other_One said:
Sounds like a boot sector virus, or not a virus at all. You could just have a failed partition, problems with the OS, or something like that. Try to find an emergency boot disk and scan it that way.
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Same thing (almost) happened to me, my comp worked fine, then it said it couldnt boot up correctly and whatever option i used to boot up with, it came back to the same screen. I just had to reinstal Windows.

but you could have a virus, my best advice is to reformat it (if possible) and reinstal your OS.
 
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