Question About the HDD

[furius980]

Hello!

I have an old HDD at home from a PC that I had a long time ago and I wanted to know if there would be a problem if I connected it to my current PC considering that Windows XP is installed on that HDD and that there is a suspected virus on it. It has files that I would like to recover and if you can have it as a 2nd storage.

Thanks for reading! I await your response.

 

[Aeacus]

Well, if you connect it as data drive and doesn't boot off from it, there is no worry. I've often done this very same thing, during data recovery operation for my friends and family.

Though, the virus on it could be troublesome. So, best to run full drive malware scan once you've hooked it up and it shows up in Windows. E.g MalwareBytes.