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I have an external drive which contains lots of important files and MacOS time machine backup. I had to plug it to a computer in our school and my drive is infected by viruses.

Now I'm worrying about plugging it to my Macbook. I don't know if this virus can affect OS X . And I don't want macbook to infected. So what is the safest way to clean my disk WITHOUT DATA LOSE .

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  • Use something life a LiveCD that can read HFS and copy your known clean files/backups off. If there are no programs running that are likely to "revive" or "feed" the virus then it can't cause any damage or infect other devices. You should also ensure you have more than one backup of your important data. There is no excuse for no or less than 2 backups anymore.
    – Kinnectus
    Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 23:05
  • What makes you think its infected?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Dec 13, 2014 at 23:56
  • @BigChris But I don't know which files are clean ?
    – Eray
    Commented Dec 14, 2014 at 0:19
  • @Ramhound , when I plug it in PC at my school, suddenly my all files disappeared (they marked as hidden file) and new files appeared with same file names .
    – Eray
    Commented Dec 14, 2014 at 0:20
  • Your school uses OS X if not then it's not infected
    – Ramhound
    Commented Dec 14, 2014 at 0:24

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