Can viruses infect other drives?

[wallabing]

Just before I reformat, can viruses infect my other disks? I have a another 160gb and 40gb that has some stuff on it, and I just cleaned my system of a virus a week ago. Is it safe, or should I back up all of my stuff to a DVD and format all my drives?

 

[DelJo63]

the short answer is YES they can.

Lovebug was a virus that propogated via SHARES on the lan.

The practical side suggests that only Bootable HDs or HDs with a \windows
directory would be sought after by a virus/trojan as a data disk would never
be used to execute code necessary to force the infection.

HOWEVER, if it's precious to you -- protect it