Re-formatting A HD

I need to re-format my HD to rid myself of a ghey trojan that's totaly screwed eveything up

the problem is I have no idea how to do it

any help would be much appreciated Image file not present in the recovered backup

That doesnt get rid of some trojans Image file not present in the recovered backup sorry

The big G said it would work Image file not present in the recovered backup

yes it does. Everytime I had a virus/trojan and when I do it, it works perfect again.

so how do I do it, and what exactly does it to to my files?

Have your installation cd in the drive. Change the bios settings to boot from cd and there should be an option to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of the OS

will it re-formatting delete all the non-essential files? eg. music, video, pictures

It will delete everything.

My comp was fucked, but I formatted it yesterday and now its fine

If you have a CD burner/DVD Burner. I Suggest you burn all your pics, music, videos, etc on it because they will ALL be gone. Trust me though, It's worth it.

ill do it after christmas when I get my external HD

thanks gaiz

yeah thatd work too

np

Well I had one mother fuker of a virus that locks into your pc so even if you re-format it, it stayed there. took me 2 weeks to get rid of the little fucker

unlucky, I got mine out of sheer ignorance

I downloaded software...

off ares...

when norton wasnt online...

so I deserve everything I get

chances are if you format yourself you will fuck things up just as much as the virus is, if you have a name brand computer use a restoration disc.

if not put the windows cd in, restart the computer, go through the setup and when it talks about having Windows already installed just delete the partition and start over again, you will lose ALL Data though.

Next time, install windows into a new partition that's about 10gb in size and store everything else elsewhere. Then all you've got to do is format that partition instead of having to copy all the other stuff.