[SOLVED] What's a good way of wiping out virus/trojans on usb drives without reinfecting a PC?

[TYTSoldier]

I think I got rid of the viruses on my PC after reformatting my internals and reinstalling Windows 10. I may have an infected flash and external hard drive I used earlier, though. Is there a safe way to get rid of the viruses and maintain the files on the external drives so I can transfer them back to my internals without infecting my PC?

 

[USAFRet]

Wiping out the virus is easy. Delete all partitions on it.
Maintaining the files on that drive while doing so is near impossible.

What is infected, if not the actual files?

 

[TYTSoldier]

Wiping out the virus is easy. Delete all partitions on it.
Maintaining the files on that drive while doing so is near impossible.

What is infected, if not the actual files?

I dont know for sure that there are viruses on these drives, but one of them was inserted when my main pc was infected and the to get a couple important files backed up and the other might have been. It would be nice to recover all those files, but I guess if it's not possible i'll just have to format the drives.

 

[USAFRet]

Well, lets not go crazy yet.

Have you done a antivirus and malware scan on these devices, with multiple tools?

 

[TYTSoldier]

Well, lets not go crazy yet.

Have you done a antivirus and malware scan on these devices, with multiple tools?

No. Would I be able to just plug them in my pc and run defender followed by malwarebytes? So far, I've only run defender on my internal hard drives after a reinstall

 

[USAFRet]

No. Would I be able to just plug them in my pc and run defender followed by malwarebytes? So far, I've only run defender on my internal hard drives after a reinstall

I MUCH prefer using a USB SATA dock for this type thing.
Only power up a suspect drive after the system is up and running.

 

[mdd1963]

connect it to a Kaspersy Recue Disk (Live environment on USB)-booted Linux system...scan it from there.