formatting the hard drive

[Alex]

I have to format the hard drive becouse i could have a
virus in some main sector in the hard drive or
something. I was told to do a complete format with
getting rid of walls or something (as you can guess I am
not too technical) and i was told do a special kind of
format - not the basic.
can someone explain what to do?
cheers in advance,

Alex.

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Alex,

Just because you *may* have a virus is no need to format. That's like =
bulldozing your house and rebuilding just because you found a rotten =
floorboard. Besides, if the bug infected the boot sector, formatting is =
pointless. Better to directly address the problem

What virus do you suspect you have and why?

Also, in another thread you asked about backing up e-mail and such. Are =
you aware that if your bug came from an e-mail that restoring this to a =
new build will likely just reinfect the system?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x - =
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone -
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

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> I have to format the hard drive becouse i could have a=20
> virus in some main sector in the hard drive or=20
> something. I was told to do a complete format with=20
> getting rid of walls or something (as you can guess I am=20
> not too technical) and i was told do a special kind of=20
> format - not the basic.
> can someone explain what to do?
> cheers in advance,
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> Alex.