Windows 10: Safely scanning potentially infected drive

Hello, I have recently got a terrible malware on my pc that forced me to ditch my hard drive, while I was taking out my hard drive out of my pc my pc is prebuilt which was the first time I had done that I found some random 1tb ssd. I wish to use this drive but I am worried that it might be infected, it would not show up on my pc but it was plugged in. I’m not sure if it is broken but if it isn’t and it works. How do it safefully boot it on my pc and scan it and have no problem or any threats because the virus I got was a mbr. Thanks.

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clean possibly infected flash drives and CD-RWs

Your steps in post #1 should work for 99% of viruses that may be on a usb flash drive. However, there are a very few viruses that can infect the MBR of a drive. I would use Diskpart from a command prompt (Admin) to clean them. In the command prompt type DISKPART then, at the Diskpart prompt use the commands:

LIST DISKnote the disk number of the usb and use it in place of # in the command:SELECT DISK #
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

After this you will have cleaned the partition table from the usb and created a partition using the whole of the the available space. You can then format this partition in File Explorer.


For a CD-RW, if you right-click on it in File Explorer there is an Erase option.

 

Is bytfence safe?

PS

Suggestion to read:

• How to Avoid Potentially Unwanted Programs | Malwarebytes Unpacked
  
• Best Practices for Safe Computing - Prevention of Malware Infection
  

 

steps taken for infected Pc's.


I was hoping someone could give me a list of step by step instructions you use as a guide to clean virus, malware...etc. so I can keep my PC clean if it gets infected.

thx