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Apple Computing Products:
Running Windows on your Mac
What's the best course of action here?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mama Luigi" data-source="post: 803254" data-attributes="member: 83273"><p>1. No. Viruses are just software programs. If your Windows partition was suffering from a virus, erasing the partition will remove the virus. And any virus you may have can't be run on a Mac because it was written for Windows.</p><p></p><p>2. Yes and no. You don't have to wipe the XP partition first, but secure empty trash isn't what you want to do. In order to prevent anyone from recovering your old files, you'll have to go into Disk Utility and tell it to erase your free space. You can also do a "secure format" of the XP partition before reintegrating it if you want. Either one works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mama Luigi, post: 803254, member: 83273"] 1. No. Viruses are just software programs. If your Windows partition was suffering from a virus, erasing the partition will remove the virus. And any virus you may have can't be run on a Mac because it was written for Windows. 2. Yes and no. You don't have to wipe the XP partition first, but secure empty trash isn't what you want to do. In order to prevent anyone from recovering your old files, you'll have to go into Disk Utility and tell it to erase your free space. You can also do a "secure format" of the XP partition before reintegrating it if you want. Either one works. [/QUOTE]
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