To: tacticalogic
If this happens you take the infected hard drive and install it as a slave (or non bootable) on a clean desktop computer. Pull off all necessary files you want to keep. Wipe clean the infected hard drive and reuse it
12 posted on
05/07/2015 7:16:52 PM PDT by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: dennisw
If this happens you take the infected hard drive and install it as a slave (or non bootable) on a clean desktop computer. Pull off all necessary files you want to keep. Wipe clean the infected hard drive and reuse itDone it many times when doing bare-metal upgrades. The downside is having to re-install all the software.
17 posted on
05/07/2015 7:24:55 PM PDT by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: dennisw
I also try to have a fairly recent clone of the main hard drive that I can swap out. That plus retrieving data off of the infected drive, as you suggest, has saved my hide on more than one occasion.
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