Removing a virus hidden within One Care Backup on External Hardrive

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I had my drive wiped & Windows 7 (Ultimate) installed. I had moved all my documents and
pictures etc on to my external hard drive.

I ran a MSE scan on my external hard drive.
The folder with my pictures & documents came up clean.

A separate folder with an old One Care Backup indicated the presecence of
mailcious software within the One Care Backup.

How do I delete the old One Care Backup from my external hard drive,
as when I try to delete I am told I do not have access to it?

The malicious software is hidden within the restore volume of the One Care
Backup and was an old XP Operating System that I was using on my pc prior to the update.

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