Iomega External Hard Drives

dermotp

Hi All,

I have 2 iomega external hard drives and looking for someone to check if they are infected as I had them connected to my pc and that became infected and had to replace it,if the drives are OK I,ll want them formatted so I can use them again,if anyone knows of any person or shop in cork city I would be grateful for any info.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

mcsean2163

Have you thought of using anti virus software?

dermotp

mcsean2163, thanks for your reply,

I don,t want to connect them to my new pc, if they are Infected as it might spread to my new system.

mcsean2163

Well they have to be connected to a pc in order to format/ retrieve data.

You could always do as suggested here and boot of a usb Linux distro and then scan your drives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/p4n913/scanning_external_harddisk_for_virus_without/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

but if you're really concerned might be best to drop into a shop. I'd do it for you in Dublin for the craic but not much use when you're in cork.

dermotp

Thanks again mcsean 2163,for your comments