- Mar 9, 2013
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I do a bit of repair work on the side, and I find myself cleaning up/fixing laptops.
If I plug a laptop hdd into a spare port and back up the user data, is there any way malware from the laptop drive can effect my system?
My gut says no. I think that anything on there would need that hdd's OS to be running instead of mine, and even if I copy them I should be all right since they aren't going to places they'd normally need to go to run.
I just wanted to check and make sure there isn't something I'm missing.
If I plug a laptop hdd into a spare port and back up the user data, is there any way malware from the laptop drive can effect my system?
My gut says no. I think that anything on there would need that hdd's OS to be running instead of mine, and even if I copy them I should be all right since they aren't going to places they'd normally need to go to run.
I just wanted to check and make sure there isn't something I'm missing.
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