Backing up a laptop that was infected and just bought a My Passport Ultra

can i transfer only the files i want to save or will the virus infect my new external hard drive?

Maverick26 wrote:

can i transfer only the files i want to save or will the virus infect my new external hard drive?

Impossible to know.  All viruses behave differently.   But you should assume everything to which your PC can connect (including network storage and cloud services) may have infected files.

I have a win zip 18.0 virus. I am only interested in saving photos I downloaded to my laptop off my phone and some word documents. I have disks for all the other programs so I can wipe the hard drive afterwords. That’s what I’m wondering. Does that help figure it out?!