Edit: now that my system is back to normal again I still have to take a look at that external HDD and remove the virus ...

Knoppix is not my first choice as a means to get there (now wonder why that should be ...),
so would it be safe to do it from the VistaPE bootCD?
And how do I get the antivirus program on the bootCD up to date? Strong antivirusprotection seems a requirement here, don't you think? LOL

That's one thing I don't understand about Live CD's - where do they write their data to?
Not to the CD - that's impossible.
To my HDD? But when I remove the bootCD I don't see a single trace of it and I've read topics that it is a good idea to start from a bootCD if you had a systemcrash and you want to save your data to USB / external drive etc. before doing a restore, because when you use the bootCD no data get's overwritten on your original system.
So how does this work?
(Ok not a need to know part of getting the virus off the external drive, I'm just being curious)

Sarah.

Hi Guys,

Today I finally go round to formatting the external drive.
So far it looks good.

It is divided into two parts (I'm working on the laptop btw, not on my own computer). Drive H, which I formatted and it looks good.
But there is also a drive G, which is called Password, about 15 MB in size and it acts like a CD.
I tried formatting it in cmd, since in Computer> Beheren (Management?) there was no option to format.

When in cmd I get this:

In general: I need to add the name Password or it won't work to start with.
And then it starts, but stops because 'the drive is writeprotected'.

But AVG clearly indicates the virus is on this drive, I think it is vital I clean this thing up.

Any suggestions?