I hooked up an external terabyte drive to my computer that infected it.

This virus or worm is grabbing and destroying video, music and image files. I lost half of Breaking Bad, Season 4. It took half of the Season on my main computer and destroyed the backup on the external drive.
I'm beginning to think this malware is looking for tv shows on computers and archiving them. It destroys them in the process just to be malicious.
Has anyone experienced or heard about this?

DVDs and CSs operate at different wavelengths and all drives on the market use separate LED lasers for the DVD and CD functions. It's not uncommon for one LED to fail while the other still operates. Before replacing the drive, through, try running a CD lens cleaner through the drive for a few passes. DVD and CD LEDs in all cases I'm aware of run through different lenses, so it's possible your drive's CD lens has enough grime on it to prevent it from working while the DVD lens is still relatively clear.
If that doesn't fix the problem, then it's easy to attach an external optical drive and use that. Go with Firewire; while your 1.25 GHz eMac has USB 2.0, USB driver support is more problematic while Firewire support is pretty solid. A Firewire drive will also allow you to use the external drive as a boot device per Startup Manager: Select a Startup Volume.
OS X 10.3 and later will support disc burning to an external drive from the Finder, so you don't even need additional software such as Toast (although an optical drive bundled with Toast will give you more control over disc burning than what's built into the Finder).

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hirogliffix,
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Can you also please explain how to boot from an external drive? (CD drive and storage device). Is there even a way to save the disks content to an external memory device and install it from there?
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Hi,
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Windows - Changing IPhone and iPad backup location
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