all harddrives have points where they will stop working because of age(talking years here)
if you run a program on it that is a virus you are in trouble but the hd itself cannot get "infected" as you say. It can store the executable and files on it can be infected....but you wouldn't know that untill you hooked it up to a pc and ran one of the executable files.
you can format them if you want..
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