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Phant0m51 · 07-10-2008, 08:22 AM

Take his hard drive out of his system, and put it in yours. Boot to your normal drive, then copy the files. As long as you don't run anything from the other drive, and make sure you don't boot to it, you'll be fine.

WoodButcher · 07-10-2008, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Phant0m51

Take his hard drive out of his system, and put it in yours. Boot to your normal drive, then copy the files. As long as you don't run anything from the other drive, and make sure you don't boot to it, you'll be fine.

This was my last option and you confirmed, thanks much!

Undertaker989 · 07-12-2008, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by WoodButcher

This was my last option and you confirmed, thanks much!

this is also where those ide/usb adapters come in handy. You can pull drives out of a computer and plug it in via usb. You don't have to worry about opening your case or booting from an infected drive/partition (well, at least not for current motherboards).

also, as one last resort, if you want to run your multiple virus scans on his drive AFTER you remove it from his system and connect it to YOUR system, you'll have a better chance to clean the infection.

WoodButcher · 07-12-2008, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertaker989

this is also where those ide/usb adapters come in handy. You can pull drives out of a computer and plug it in via usb. You don't have to worry about opening your case or booting from an infected drive/partition (well, at least not for current motherboards).

also, as one last resort, if you want to run your multiple virus scans on his drive AFTER you remove it from his system and connect it to YOUR system, you'll have a better chance to clean the infection.

I got lucky, the system tried to boot from his drive but he had a password so I changed the boot order in the bios.

I've got and use a ide/usb w/ an 80 gig, put his music on there, scanned the music, then wiped his sata drive. I'll let him keep this for a music file back-up until he buys a sate for internal storage. His box only has one ide and that is where the optical is. The ide can manage 2 drives and I do have a 200 gig ide HD. Do you think that would work for back-up files (master/slave) or should I make him buy a new sata drive?

Come to find out he got the trojan/ worm by opening a link someone sent him by IM. I was wrong in thinking Firefox.

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