Virus on Computer

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I recently encountered problems with my Hard Drive (SATA), it turned out that they were caused by a virus. At a later stage the computer couldn't detect my HDD then I tried reinstalling windows but the software also could not detect the HDD. Now I decided not use my external HDD as a master on my PC. I installed windows on it and it completed the installation with sucess but could not open windows. it gave a message that the computer has a virus and that it wont be safe to open windows on the computer.

Now I am not sure how I could remove the virus from the computer.

Any suggestions?
 
First backup all your data! Even if it contains a virus. We can remove the virus at the end but at least lets save some data.

Now, how didn't the Computer detect your SATA drive?

Which Operating System are you running? (Or was running).
 
I recently helped a friend over come the exact same problem.

First I took the drive out, shook it a bit and changed it to the secondary IDE for detection.

Then logged into windows and disabled system restore, then scanned with windows rogue scanner, followed by spy bot search and destroy.

That took 3 hours, then scanned with avast for another 8 hours and now his pc is back to normal.

Hope ur pc will be as easy to fix as his :)
 
Check that in the BIOS, an option to enable virus protection or something similar isn't enabled. This is an ancient security feature from the early that does nothing these days.

I'm not to sure about the rest of your problem, I can't quite understand what you are saying you did with the drives. Is 1 internal and 1 external?
 
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