Is it possible to install antivirus on an external hard disk?
Yes Of course you can. Or if you don’t want to install but need antivirus in HDD, go for portable installers. I’m giving a list here.https://www.geckoandfly.com/1000...
Can an infected external hard drive cause any harm to my laptop?
My father got a hard drive from his office which is no longer used at work. He told me that it was infected with a dangerous kind of infection and the office got a new one in it's place, so now it's no longer used over there. It's capacity is 1TB and 833GB of it is still free, it has got some important office files on it. I thought I can take some risk and I should try to remove the infection. I connected it, installed the drivers and started scanning it with my antivirus program (Avast). I found a trojan (Win32:Trojan-gen). I just deleted it off the hard disk permanently. Now I am worried if this will affect my laptop to. I already have got some viruses on it and I successfully removed them (e.g. a parite worm). The hard drive is a WD My Passport, manufactured: 2012.
Why does my external hard drive slow down my computer?
It shouldn't. So the first thing you need to find out is what disk activity is occurring. Also you may want to see if it slows down the computer on alternative ports in case it is a port problem.Likely causes:It is being scanned for viruses, malware. As with network drives you can choose to exclude the drive from scanning.It is being indexed: Similarly, it can be excluded.It is being defragged.You have a virus or malware that is searching it.Your computer is caching access, and you did not have a lot of overhead to begin with. Try forcing writes to disk. This will use less resources but when you do write it will take longer.You first step is to work out what is happening to your resources, (these are keywords), and what processes are responsible for any external drive access.
I cannot get access to my passport wd external hard drive ,keeps saying access deinied ,?
That's all a bit unclear. I have a passport drive and am using Win 7 and have no problems whatsoever. What do you mean by "all my folders are still on there"? If you can't access the drive, how do you know that? It almost sounds like some malware or virus has installed itself and is stopping you from accessing the drive. That malware would be on your internal disk though, so I would scan all your internal disks and memory first (try getting "malwarebytes free edition" because it finds things many virus checkers don't).
How can we open a corrupted external hard drive without formatting on Windows 7?
You can't. Once the drive becomes damaged or being corrupted, internal file system won't allows any type of read or write actions. Using recovery programs before formatting is recommended if you've saved something useful on it and don't want it to be fade away permanently. I'd recommend formatting only after recovering your precious files. Else, you might lose the entire stored content. Good luck!!
Other peoples computers cannot pick up my external hard drive?
When i plug my hard drive into my own computer (which is a Macbook pro), it works perfectly, you can read and write it. The external hard drive is a Mecer XC12 When i plug it into the TV or in anyone's computer, it doesnt even get picked up. For example when you go on a window's computer and go to "my computer", it is not there. The one time i plugged it into another Mac where it was picked up, but i could only copy files from the hard drive to the mac and not from the mac to the hard drive...please help...its very frustrating
How to hack my external hard disk password ?!!?
Well the thing is you know the password but it is not taking it. type your password in notepad and paste it in the place you would put it to open the hard drive.
Is it okay to delete autorun.inf from western digital external hard drive?
A few things about autorun.inf.... Autorun.inf is used for various reasons it could be a virus as the other person pointed out or it could be totally innocent and used by Western digital. Open up autorun.inf in notepad and paste to here exactly what is in autorun.inf to help decide properly whether it is a virus, or whether it is innocent. Some autorun.inf's are added by drive manufacturers to produce that flashy little icon for the drive, you may notice that the drive has a "Western Digital" logo or something for it's icon, instead of the standard windows hard drive logo. If this is the case, that is exactly what this autorun.inf file is doing, so deleting it will make the drive revert to the windows removable hard drive picture. The other thing that autorun.inf could be doing is, it could be used for unlocking the drive, some drives have security on them so you can set passwords to stop anyone else accessing the drive if it is lost or stolen, if this is the case with this drive then deleting autorun.inf could disable the security on the drive and make the existing data inaccessible. and finally autorun.inf could also be a virus, as autorun.inf forces windows to run something when the drive is plugged in, it can be used to force windows to run a virus. Normally however if it is a virus, the virus also sets the properties of autorun.inf to hidden and system file, that way you can't see it in Windows explorer (which is why one major security flaw in Windows is the ability to hide system files and folders, and also the one that allows you to hide known extensions, as even though this makes it easier for the end user, it does allow viruses to hide themselves as anything can set itself up as a system file just by running attrib +s