tamilvendan
Broken In
Hi friends!
I have got this problem with my friend's computer. It is in the browsing centre where lot of people come and use the system and quite frequently it gets infected with viruses. Having an antivirus (free edition though, avg) doesn't help much. It leads to slowing down of the system and non functioning as well which affects the income.
When i visited him i tried to locate the virus with hijackthis and i did it successfully but the removing part was not successful even with antivirus , delete doctor. sometimes the virus doesn't allow hijackthis to run. With no other option left out i had to reinstall the os ( win xp)
While installing xp, it formats the drive onto which it installs the os i.e C: drive alone. There is no option to format other drives as well. If the virus is stored in other drives it can reinfect again. Actually that's what happened in this system.
So my question is how to clean install xp os by completely formatting the whole disk? I created a MS DOS bootable floppy disk and with that i gave commands format c: on booting but it failed to do so.
My friend prefers to format and reinstall over going through all that diagnosis which is time consuming and reduces the productive hours. Installing takes only 40 mins.
Any suggestions on formatting the drives.
Thanks in advance
sorry posted twice as it said " posted in wrong section , try again". Moderators can please lock this one
I have got this problem with my friend's computer. It is in the browsing centre where lot of people come and use the system and quite frequently it gets infected with viruses. Having an antivirus (free edition though, avg) doesn't help much. It leads to slowing down of the system and non functioning as well which affects the income.
When i visited him i tried to locate the virus with hijackthis and i did it successfully but the removing part was not successful even with antivirus , delete doctor. sometimes the virus doesn't allow hijackthis to run. With no other option left out i had to reinstall the os ( win xp)
While installing xp, it formats the drive onto which it installs the os i.e C: drive alone. There is no option to format other drives as well. If the virus is stored in other drives it can reinfect again. Actually that's what happened in this system.
So my question is how to clean install xp os by completely formatting the whole disk? I created a MS DOS bootable floppy disk and with that i gave commands format c: on booting but it failed to do so.
My friend prefers to format and reinstall over going through all that diagnosis which is time consuming and reduces the productive hours. Installing takes only 40 mins.
Any suggestions on formatting the drives.
Thanks in advance
sorry posted twice as it said " posted in wrong section , try again". Moderators can please lock this one
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