Solve : putting an infected widows xp hard drive into a new widnows 7

1.	Solve : putting an infected widows xp hard drive into a new widnows 7 laptop?
Answer» hi i was WONDERING if you can help me,, my OLD toshiba windows xp LAPTOP is infected with somekind of virus, it wont even let me enter the safe set up mode when you switch it on,, the laptop is old but i have got a LOT of music and photos on it id like to save. i went out and got a new toshiba windows 7 laptop which is fully protected with norton 360.. can i put the old hard drive from my windows xp laptop into my new fully protected windows 7 laptop??? will the new laptop pick up and erase the virus or will the virus spread to my new computer??? you help is much appreciated thanks...Just installing the drive will not cause the MALWARE infection to spread, but if you copy any files over........ What I suggest you do is download and run a boot time av on the infected system.forgot to say,, when i switch on my old laptop it wont even load up windows, it wont let me access the safe mode set up.. it says windows had to shut down.... Quote from: Allan on DECEMBER 22, 2009, 05:50:38 AM What I suggest you do is download and run a boot time av on the infected system. hey allan thanks for gettin back to me,, ive switched on my old lappy and now im not even getting a load up screen,, its just black.... i can hear the system working but nothing on the screen at all,,,,, if i put my old hardrive in my new system and do a norton 360 scan on it will it clear the problems on it?? No way to know. Go ahead and try. Again, I'd run a boot time scan with the drive right where it is.id have done as you says but i cant get into my old lappy... ok ill have a go and see what id does and says, ill let you know later on. thanks,You are booting to a cd, not the HD. As long as the cd drive is at the top of the boot order in bios there should be no problem booting to the cd and running the scan.

Solve : putting an infected widows xp hard drive into a new widnows 7 laptop?

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hi i was WONDERING if you can help me,, my OLD toshiba windows xp LAPTOP is infected with somekind of virus, it wont even let me enter the safe set up mode when you switch it on,, the laptop is old but i have got a LOT of music and photos on it id like to save.
i went out and got a new toshiba windows 7 laptop which is fully protected with norton 360..

can i put the old hard drive from my windows xp laptop into my new fully protected windows 7 laptop???
will the new laptop pick up and erase the virus or will the virus spread to my new computer???

you help is much appreciated
thanks...Just installing the drive will not cause the MALWARE infection to spread, but if you copy any files over........

What I suggest you do is download and run a boot time av on the infected system.forgot to say,, when i switch on my old laptop it wont even load up windows, it wont let me access the safe mode set up..
it says windows had to shut down.... Quote from: Allan on DECEMBER 22, 2009, 05:50:38 AM

What I suggest you do is download and run a boot time av on the infected system.

hey allan thanks for gettin back to me,,
ive switched on my old lappy and now im not even getting a load up screen,, its just black....
i can hear the system working but nothing on the screen at all,,,,,

if i put my old hardrive in my new system and do a norton 360 scan on it will it clear the problems on it??

No way to know. Go ahead and try.

Again, I'd run a boot time scan with the drive right where it is.id have done as you says but i cant get into my old lappy...
ok ill have a go and see what id does and says, ill let you know later on.
thanks,You are booting to a cd, not the HD. As long as the cd drive is at the top of the boot order in bios there should be no problem booting to the cd and running the scan.

Solve : putting an infected widows xp hard drive into a new widnows 7 laptop?

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