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vizering   10-09-2009 at 08:18:42 PM

I have a 400g external hard drive I'd like to use as a transfer and back-up device.

1- Let's say I go to a friends house, who has 1 virus on his pc but he doesn't know about it, is there a chance of that virus infecting my external HDD when I plug it into his PC?

2- Is there a safe way to back-up files from an infected computer without bringing the virus/malware/trojan to the external HDD?

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