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October 28, 2003 at 12:23 PM
fitlady59

Can a virus trash a hard drive

by fitlady59 . Updated 22 years, 8 months ago

I not only discovered 1 virus had infected my computer, but a second one had as well. I was able to use virus tools to remove both viruses. I suspected I still had another virus lurking on my system since my processing speed had ground down to a slow crawal, and it was taking up to 15 minutes to connect to the internet via my DSL connection (modem and line checked OK)…lots of hard reboots had to be done! I finally bought and ran McAfee virus scan software (yes, I know, I should’ve had this type of utility in the first place!) and it detected a worm in a WINNT systems file. McAfee was unable to quarantine it, clean it, or delete it and suggested I resort to a Win2000 restore disk. Instead, I decided to wipe out both my hard drives and start over from scratch. Well, the hard drive where my OS resided won’t re-format, and I’m getting the message that my disk may be damaged. I just bought/installed this hard drive 6 months ago…did the unknown worm damage it or did it just coincidently fail? I am hearing different opinions about this from other techies…thanks so much for your help!

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