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Disabling antivirus before reformat  

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7/16/08 at 10:22pm
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Hi,

I just picked up an external Acomdata drive and the manual advises you to disable antivirus software before reformatting it. Has anyone heard of this before or know why it might be adviseable to do so?

Thanks
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7/16/08 at 11:48pm
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