I would like to build a pc soon in the middle of January. At home I still have a 740gb ssd from a somewhat older laptop. I got the hard drive (actually the whole laptop) from someone as a gift, but there was a virus on it. Whatever it was, I don't know it was short and sweet a few years ago. Can I use them on my new PC without damaging anything on the PC?
You could just install this hard drive and remove the viruses. Use the program malwarebytes for this
So at the moment I have no pc to test it
But if normal formatting would be sufficient, I don't care about the data on it
I don't know myself but it should work
You have to format the disk correctly, then that should be done.
To do this, I would play it safe and create a bootable stick with Minitool Partition Wizard.
Then boot a PC of your choice over the stick and connect the virus-infected disk. Then format it and let the tool iron it over completely with 0 or 1, i.e. Format correctly, then that's it.
Simply delete / format the hard drive completely and then you can do it without any problems.
Normal formatting doesn't do anything with the actual data, with viruses I would play it safe.
Okay then it would be wiser not to use them
It was just said that it wouldn't do that much
I would use the method I have described so that you are on the safe side.
Then you can also use the plate.
Goes like this
Then that's pure nonsense.
Format once and the problem is gone.
