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01-31-2013, 05:58 PM
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corrupted mbr
A friend's computer got a virus that corrupted the mbr on her Thinkpad T61 (it caused many other problems too). I put in a clone of the hard drive that I'd made earlier. She'd like to use the original disk for storage. Is this safe? Should I do a zero fill? will that remove every trace of the virus?
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02-01-2013, 03:58 AM
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Viruses that corrupt the mdr are few and far in-between... Zapping the partition and recreating it and then format should be good enough. Running the the HD makers tools against the drive would be a good idea.
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02-01-2013, 08:45 AM
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I would zero fill it.
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02-01-2013, 09:52 AM
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I have read of cases where only a small portion of the drive (I guess the directory?) was deleted and the malware was still able to migrate into the reinstalled OS.
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02-02-2013, 03:47 PM
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Could I just clone a good drive to it? Wouldn't that overwrite everything, including the mbr?
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