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w32 worm blaster

AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
I have a desktop, but I'm not about to pull that HD out and plug this one in (if I could even get it out of the laptop).

What are the odds that tossing all my photos and shit onto an external to put on another machine will cause the new machine to be infected? Photos and e-mail are the only things I give a shit about, everything else can be bought again or dl'ed again.
 
dmention7

dmention7

Hater
You don't need to replace the HD on your desktop, just pull the one out of your laptop, and plug in two cables from the desktop. Unless you've got an eMachines or something, there will be a second SATA port (most likely 4 total) and power connector hanging out.

I'm looking at the back of my laptop right now... there is a single screw holding the HD panel on. It's even a phillips screw so I don't have to worry about lining up a slotted screwdriver!

Personally, I would avoid transferring files to another device when the computer is booted from an infected drive. It's not likely you'd transfer something, but it's not out of the question either.

Other things you can try would be to use a "good" computer to burn a bootable anti-virus software to a CD and then boot the laptop from that. AVG has a downloadable rescue disc that can be burned to either a CD or a USB drive.
 
AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
alright, laptop HD is out, fucker is tiny. I'm downloading AVG and MSE on Jana's Dell desktop and will hope for the best.

On a side note, I didn't know I could upgrade the memory on my laptop, gonna look into that as well...
 
AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
ok, I was right, there is no extra places to hook up my laptop HD in the desktop. Only way to do it would be to unhook the one HD, and hook up the one from the laptop, and when i did try that, the computer wouldn't boot up at all...
 
Workdawg

Workdawg

NARWHAL
There can't be only 1 IDE/Sata port in that entire desktop. Do you have an optical drive in there? You could temporarily unhook that and hook up the laptop drive.
 
Jana

Jana

New Member
This is AJ - There is two wires items going to the current HD. One with multiple colors (white, black, orange, red, ect) that routes from item to item from the power supply. The other is a blue wire that connects from the MB. I don't have anything else that uses a blue wire like that to connect, only the HD.
 
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DrWebster

Guest
I'm thinking that a bootable rescue CD for the laptop is your best bet.
 
AJ

AJ

110 HP of FURY!
giving that a try now, but putting the HD back in the laptop isn't going so well, system won't boot. lol

perfect time to get a new desktop for my day to day shit i guess.
 
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spek1098

Guest
Best bet if your going to do this yourself is just to backup all the critical data and nuke the drive and install everything from scratch. Again, UBCD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) has the best tools out there. Use Deriks Boot n' Nuke to wipe the drive and your recovery disks to restore it.
 
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