Sandboxing a slave hd ?

[Deleted member 61728]

If i have my master Hd with the os on it and wish to connect 2 slave drives how can i isolate these two drives from the master so that if they are infected it wont reinfect the master ?

 

[theheyes]

What do you mean by infected? It's the operating system that is at risk. Is this a preventative measure or have you got a couple of bad disks to attach?

 

[Deleted member 61728]

What do you mean by infected? It's the operating system that is at risk. Is this a preventative measure or have you got a couple of bad disks to attach?

Yes couple of bad disk to attach which i don't want to erase just use normal read/write but isolated from reinfecting anything.


First will using some program to write 0s over the whole drive be sufficient to wipe any of the most hidden undetected nastys?

Second other than nuke what other programs can you recommend which are free fast and that can securely wipe any infected drive without chance of reinfection.

 

[Memphis]

Me thinks someone believes they know more than they do, and are over-reacting over nothing .

 

[CaptainCrash]

Yes couple of bad disk to attach which i don't want to erase just use normal read/write but isolated from reinfecting anything.


First will using some program to write 0s over the whole drive be sufficient to wipe any of the most hidden undetected nastys?

Second other than nuke what other programs can you recommend which are free fast and that can securely wipe any infected drive without chance of reinfection.

There's really no need for any of that - just connect the drives up, copy across any data you need to rescue (*not* executable files, obviously), then format the drives. A quick format will do - the malicious code may still be recoverable until it's overwritten, but you'd have to make a deliberate effort to do this, and without any way to run the code it's just a helpless collection of bits, and completely harmless.