It's been a very long time ago, with many keyboards in between, so memory is hazy, but I'm pretty sure the standard hard drive did not have a user format, so you may have to delete.
I converted mine to the Keysoft system with direct communication to the laptop from hard drive, and that did have a format available.
Viruses, no or unlikely in the extreme, since they are written for windows or dos and are meaningless to a kn operating system.