I've done this many times, in fact I put a caddy in the PC so I can simply
set a suspect drive to slave and put it in the cassette, boot the machine
and run whatever diagnostics are necessary.
Since the os does not run on the drive there is little possibility of any
infections crossing to the PC's os. I run a virus scan before anything else.
I've never had any problem with anything transferring to my machines after
years of doing this. You can delete anything you want on the suspect drive
because the os is not running on it. If it is a FATS drive you can boot up
from a floppy into DOS and really nuke anything, del... deltree... oh the
nostalgia! :)
If needed it is usually possible to repair any Windows problems with the
appropriate system CD once the drive is back in the original machine - don't
forget to set it back to master or whatever it was originally.
Bill.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: That is also the easiest way to infect a clean machine. Have that happen
: just once & you'll probably never do that again.
:
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