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When a hard disk is said to have "crashed" it means that the read/write head has come in contact with the magnetic medium. The read/write head is SUPPOSED to "fly" above the surface, never actually touching down.
The disk turns at such a high speed that if the head touches down it destroys the surface resulting in what is affectionately called a "head crash" or a "disk crash".
A computer virus cannot cause that kind of hardware failure.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 15y agoSome viruses can affect data on other kinds of drives, as long as it can be written to, such as floppies and removable drives. Writable CD's are not likely to be affected.
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∙ 13y agoit can damage it horribly. certain viruses are different. some even delete everything you have. there are no such thing as a "good virus". VIRUSES SUCK. ;P
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∙ 12y agoThe virus attack your softwares and OS in common. But some serious ones will of course have the effect on the hard disk.
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How does viruses get into your computer and what do they do?
The virus comes from USB, hard disk, sharing the computer, floppy disks, Cd's, and downloaded files from the Internet. Viruses can destroy your computer hard disk. The effect of virus that your computer will become slow and freeze several times.
How should we take care of hard disk?
protect your computer from having virus by using anti virus softwares
A virus is designed to format a computer's hard disk based on a specific calendar date?
Logic bomb
Is a hard disk a hardware or a software?
A computer hard disk or hard drive (fixed disk) is hardware.
How can you get rid of a computer virus?
Make sure that you have anti-virus software on your computer. Get the anti-virus software to scan your hard disk. If a virus is found, the software will either remove it or quarantine it.
How do you remove virus from ram?
RAM is cleaned when you power off your computer. Your virus is not on the RAM, it is on the hard disk and moves from there into RAM when you start up your computer. You need to remove the virus from the hard disk and then reboot it to clean the RAM.
Which part of a computer does a virus affects?
A virus may destroy all data stored in the hard disk by either formatting it without warning or by destroying some of its sectors.A virus may change the boot sector of the hard disk. If the boot sector of a disk is affected, it cannot boot the computer.The computer viruses are automatically loaded into the main memory of the computer and remain in the memory. This slows down the data accessing speed of the computer.A virus can destroy BIOS of the computer.
Suppose a user is experiencing hard disk performance issues but no operating system errors What are possible causes of this problem?
Disk compression on commonly-accessed files Files on the hard disk are too fragmented The computer has a virus
How do you take backup of virus infected hard disk?
pls tell some idea to take backup of virus infeced hard disk
What is a hard disk hardware or software?
The computer's hard disk is hardware.
What is lifespan of computer virus?
Indefinite, until you can get it brought in for a repair or until you wipe the hard drive with a restore disk you can get from the manufacturer.Common manufacturers:DellAcerHP
Can virus in USB drive affect the DVD player's functionality?
There is no hard disk drive in a DVD player. So nothing will go wrong.
