I bought a new computer not to long ago, because my old one just wasn't reliable anymore. It had a virus on it that I could just never get rid of. I didn't erase the hard drive though because I had files on it that I could not get rid of without backing up. However once I finally went in to back them up windows crashed completely and I cannot get in. My question now is, if I were to add the old hard drive to my new computer, would I be able to get the files off of it that I needed. Or would adding the hard drive automatically give the new one the virus. I wasn't planning on pulling the files from the old hard drive and putting them on the new one, but rather burning the files I needed onto a dvd burner.