i need help asap

i have a friend i can slave my harddrive too but he thinks my harddrive will infect his i told him to slave it and format it for me .. As long as he doesnt open it , he should be fine? and thanks i go check and look for a cord to do the slaving

i have a friend i can slave my harddrive too but he thinks my harddrive will infect his i told him to slave it and format it for me .. As long as he doesnt open it , he should be fine? and thanks i go check and look for a cord to do the slaving

Wha?

Your trying to install his infected Hard drive with your hard drive?...

I assume the cord you are looking for is a SATA cable?

As for infecting a computer, I don't think it will infect your computer if you put the infected drive as secondary/slave only because the virus is program to run as the computer is loading its stuff, but since the virus is on a drive that does not run any process or applications its just consider a "storage/second drive".

Are you putting it as secondary because of backing up and retrieving files like documents/pictures etc?

If not you can just format the computer easily by putting in your installation CD, (will need to set up to boot CD first in the Bios) then Install a new copy of Windows.. Cheap and easy way to do it is to delete your partion, then install on a blank drive. It will ask you to format and just hit yes. If you have recovery CD its even better because it will wipe and install everything back to factory with bloatware instead

How badly infected is it? Gonna read your post.

its really bad.... cd rom drive wont read the cd or boot up it wont do the normal beep after u boot it up and it hangs on black screen with flashing underline

How badly infected is it? Gonna read your post.

Always best to read the post BEFORE making a comment!! me thinks


To icemeetsfire, just do what SuperDave suggested. He's a virus / malware specialist and would not tell you to do something that would damage somebody else's machine

[Malware Removal Specialist]

i have a friend i can slave my harddrive too but he thinks my harddrive will infect his i told him to slave it and format it for me .. As long as he doesnt open it , he should be fine? and thanks i go check and look for a cord to do the slaving

As long as he stays away from the system files, his computer should be safe. As I mentioned before, as soon as your harddrive is slaved to his computer, he should first run and scan on the harddrive using his up-to-dated Anti-Virus program. Then he can also use MRT which should be already installed on his computer. (Click Start, Run and type in mrt.exe) Next he should download SAS and MBAM and run a scan with that. If these scans find any malware, perhaps you could reinstall the harddrive in your computer and see if it will boot. The whole reason why we're doing this is to clean out whatever malware that could be stoping your computer from booting.

I havent done anything you told me yet... I will as soon as i get the stuff to do it