i got a virus on my laptop and i need to wipe the harddrive how do i do this?
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Started by theron324, Sep 18 2010 08:23 PM
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Posted 19 September 2010 - 09:34 AM
Boot up a windows CD if you have one, it should allow you to format the hard drive. If you don't have one, download a live CD like Knoppix (Linux), burn it to a disk, and use Gparted to format the HDD (for file system make sure you use NTFS) (Not recommended unless you know Linux)
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Posted 19 September 2010 - 10:33 PM
Boot up a windows CD if you have one, it should allow you to format the hard drive. If you don't have one, download a live CD like Knoppix (Linux), burn it to a disk, and use Gparted to format the HDD (for file system make sure you use NTFS) (Not recommended unless you know Linux)
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