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Can a Virus attack Drives, that don't show up in File Explorer?

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Does removing the Drive Letter protect it from a Virus attack? 

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...what are you doing that requires you to isolate your drives from a virus?

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it can attack anything that si still connected to the computer unless it is unreadable by the os as i have mentioned before one of my friends got a virus that was given and basically installed an in winodows ocing tool and when he restarted overvolted his cpu to a bou 1.6 volts and he stopped it when his temps got to 100c

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I can imagine some viruses would find a way to infect an "invisible" drive. Even if it's RAW formatted, it might format it and use it.

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Everything is Possible when it comes to 1s and 0s

 

 

 

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...what are you doing that requires you to isolate your drives from a virus?

 

I have a SSD for my daily system. If this SSD gets messed up by a Virus or something, I got a second Drive that is a clone of the SSD with all the software.(Files are saved in the cloud) I need my computer every day, so I want it to work, no matter what happens.

 

it can attack anything that si still connected to the computer unless it is unreadable by the os as i have mentioned before one of my friends got a virus that was given and basically installed an in winodows ocing tool and when he restarted overvolted his cpu to a bou 1.6 volts and he stopped it when his temps got to 100c

 

 

is there a way to make it unreadable for the daily system?

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is there a way to make it unreadable for the daily system?

 

Unplug it? Just power down your system and pull out the SATA cable, then leave it. A virus can't get to it if it's not plugged in.

That's seriously the best way, if your main SSD get's infected, swap the SSDs then wipe the infected SSD.

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Unplug it? Just power down your system and pull out the SATA cable, then leave it. A virus can't get to it if it's not plugged in.

That's seriously the best way, if your main SSD get's infected, swap the SSDs then wipe the infected SSD.

 

The Backup drive is a 1TB drive, so I wanted to use the other 750 GB for storage. But I should still have a 250gb somewhere to put unplug it. 

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