Virus , bad hard drive or both

**matt526** · 02-13-2009, 09:34 PM

I do have one last question,
If I were to take out the hard drive an hook it up as an external drive to another computer and format it from there. Would that be taking a risk on infecting the other computer?

**clocker** · 02-13-2009, 09:51 PM

Should be OK.

**N2bnfunn** · 02-13-2009, 09:58 PM

NTFS does not use MBR (master boot record)

**clocker** · 02-13-2009, 10:42 PM

Oh, really?

**peat moss** · 02-13-2009, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by N2bnfunn

NTFS does not use MBR (master boot record)

Then why do people use a Win98 boot disk to fixmbr on a NTFS system ?

Still one of my fav tools when I have HDD troubles .

Boot the PC with a Win98 boot disk (http://www.bootdisk.com/),
then run the command fdisk /mbr
This works on FAT and on NTFS partitions.