How Do I Safely Back Up an Infected Drive?

⚜️ Once your hard drive is infected, a full back up is likely to include the infection as well. I'll look at what steps to take when that happens.

3 options to back up an infected drive
* Back up the entire drive, knowing it’s infected. You’ll be able to restore anything you need, later.
* Back up the entire drive and restore to a second drive — or just move the infected drive to be a second drive. Scan the second drive for malware, and restore files as needed.
* Back up only data from the drive. The risk is missing something important.

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Chapters
0:00 Backing up without the virus
0:20 The question
0:40 Backup “Just your data”?
0:55 Three alternatives
1:12 One - Backup everything – restore carefully
2:56 Restore to different drive and scan
4:04 Backup only data (not recommended)
5:23 Next steps
5:47 Restoring to previous backup is best

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