Read infected disk safely?

[expat]

Going on to the net without an AV wouldn't be a problem in itself. It's the not having a patched system and no firewall which gets you infected without doing anything.

Yup, that was it

[MrsGoof]

Plan B - install the drive as a second IDE locally to your machine and sweep with an AV from Linux.

Nice Idea Dr Evil, unless the disk partion is NTFS, then then LINUX app. will not be able to WRITE to it.

[Dr Evil]

Nice Idea Dr Evil, unless the disk partion is NTFS, then then LINUX app. will not be able to WRITE to it.

It was a Linux Boot Util I was thinking of - and it does let you write to an NTFS partition. If I can find it I'll PM you the link to it.

[expat]

Nice Idea Dr Evil, unless the disk partion is NTFS, then then LINUX app. will not be able to WRITE to it.

Not a prob for me anyway because the problem is to read from it, in order to save the data without saving the nasties. But thanks for the comment.

[NoddY]

To do this properly you need:
1. A screwdriver
2. Iron filings
3. Magnifying glass