External HDD virus

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4th October 2009, 03:13 PM

larc

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External HDD virus - larc

It seems I have the same problem that this user has. Im plugging my external HDD and Im not able to access to this one, not explore and computer stays non responding. I tried another Laptop and Vista restarts itself.

the solution provided to this user applies for my case?

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by febuary1088

It seems like there is a virus on my External HD and my USB flash drive as well. Avira tells me that its disguised as F:\Autorun

I know that I can reformat these electronics but I REALLY prefer not to because I have so many precious files on my External....

Is there ANY way I can clean out the hard drive without having to reformat it?