A while back i had one of our office computers get attacked by a virus. When i spent as much time on it as i could, i took it to a shop and the tech there told me that some viruses particualrly the worm variety dig in and even after a deep format leave some sort of residue. He said the end result is that on some occasions the only option is a new hard drive to fix the problems. I do not know how often this is the case or just how true this is, but since i have always backed up important stuff to a second hard drive and used it from there.

My HD from PG is safe and stored in a cabinet in the studio, and the whole program is copied to two other locations one i use daily and one as a secondary backup.

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.