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Since hard drives are cheap and getting cheaper every few
months, your system will likely benefit by swapping in a new
drive. Don't do this if the system is under warranty, but if
it's beyond warranty, you can get a bigger capacity hard drive
for very little money.
1. Buy an external case; they are cheap, and come with USB
or Firewire or USB+Firewire interfaces. Buy what your computer
needs, usually USB is fine.
2. Remove the infected drive from your system, and mount it
in the external case.
2. Install the new, larger capacity hard drive in your computer.
3. Install Windows, choosing the Format Hard Disk option.
4. Install a good anti-virus program.
5. Re-install the software you normally use.
6. Copy your data files from the external portable drive,
which has your infected drive, to the new hard drive in your
computer. The anti-virus program will tell you which files are
infected; do what it says.
After this, you can use the external hard drive as a backup,
but run a virus-scan on it first to eliminate anything bad.
11 May 2007
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