Scanning an External Hard Drive with Norton 360

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I just installed an external hard drive on my computer to serve as a back-up for the computer's internal hard drive.  I have Norton 360 v5.  How can I get Norton 360 to run a scan on this drive?  When I run an on-demand scan there doesn't seem to be an option to scan an external drive.

 

Thanks for the help. 

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Hello MRM

 

Welcome to the Norton Community Forum

 

Does Windows recognise the external drive  ?

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Yes, Windows recoginzes the external hard drive.  Full system scans now take the same amount of time as they did before I added the external hard drive so I'm guessing that the external drive is not being scanned.  I would like to be able to scan the external hard drive only "on demand".

 

Thanks for your help.

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MRM wrote:

Yes, Windows recoginzes the external hard drive.  Full system scans now take the same amount of time as they did before I added the external hard drive so I'm guessing that the external drive is not being scanned.  I would like to be able to scan the external hard drive only "on demand".

 

Thanks for your help.

 

See if this works for you:

 

Right click Start, Open Windows Explorer, right click on your external drive, hover over Norton 360 and select Scan Now.

 

Please post back if this worked for you.

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That seemed to work.  Thanks!!!!