How can I Scan an External Hard Drive Only with McAfee?

Like other antivirus program, McAfee security also set to work mainly by running scheduled scans of your entire system. If you are tensed about a particular drive will infected with potential viruses or you just want to be absolutely certain it's clean, which never hurts then you can direct McAfee to immediately run a scan of only that drive. At McAfee Technical Support NZ, we have provided you few step by step instructions to scan an External Hard Drive Only with McAfee. These steps are thoroughly written by our highly talented technicians, who have years of working experience in the respective field. Our technical support is highly reliable as we do not compromise with the quality of our service.

Following are the steps:

Step1- At the first step confirms that the external drive which you want to scan is connected to your computer. If the drive requires a power source besides the computer then make sure that the drive’s power cord is plugged in and that the drive is switched on, if it has a manual switch

Step2- At the second step clicks on the “Start” button and then “My computer”. In the Window XP, double click on “My computer” on the desktop. In this way, an Explorer window showing all of your internal and external hard drives will connect to your computer

Step3- Thereafter right clicks on the icon representing the external drive and then selects the “Scan for threats” option

Step4- At the final steps, you have to follow the on-screen instruction and wait until McAfee will scan a drive. Depending on how large and how full the drive is, this process will take few minutes to several hours to complete.