My computer took a dive the other day. I am not sure if it was from a virus, or if it was just an old system and it decided to just go crazy and not work anymore. Unfortunately I also had my external Hard Drive hooked up to it when it all went down.<br>luckily I have a spare computer. Now after all day of upgrading, and downloading, upgrading, and downloading, and running malicious software removal tool, from microsoft, and running bitdefender deep scan several times, on the spare computer. I am finaly satisfied, and ready to use the spare. The only problem now is, I am terrified to hook up the External Hard Drive. If the old computer was infected with a virus, is there is a chance that the external could be too?<br>What are the precautions and steps that I should take to hook up and scan the External HD?, or should I hook it up at all? Is there any way to scan just the External HD? My old, and Spare computers Don't have a firewire(?) connection on them. Please HELP!