Can a virus get onto my USB drive

[Guest M Jawad]

I am sure my windows 10 laptop has a virus in it, so I have decided to do a factory reset of the laptop. However, I have some very important files on the laptop which I want to keep and I am pretty sure if I run the "keep my personal files" option on the factory reset the virus will just stay and hide itself as a personal file, so I decided to copy any important files manually onto my USB drive and then completely wipe the disk and put the files back in after.However, I'm wondering can a virus get onto the USB drive? I do not want to run into the same problem again after resetting so should I

 

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