Windows XP
From: Dave George (david_george_at_ctb.com)
Date: 08/25/03
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 09:49:47 -0700
If you have a DOS bootdisk with fdisk on it you can boot
to the floppy drive and run fdisk. This will allow you
to delete your primary dos partion or non dos partition.
It depends if you formatted with NTFS or not. NTFS is a
non dos partition. Also, you can boot to your XP CD and
when the option comes up to repair or install a fresh
copy, choose fresh copy. You should receive an option to
delete your partition. Delete it and follow the
instructions to recreate it. You'll then have to format
the partition. That will wipe out any and all files. If
you have a boot sector virus you'll have to create a boot
disk with Norton or some other virus protection software
and clean the boot sector. Those instructions come with
your virus software. I hope that helps.
>-----Original Message-----
>My teenage daughter disabled my firewall and my
antivirus
>to speed up downloading music and downloaded several
>viruses. So much damage was done that I had to
reinstall
>Windows XP. I still can't get it to work right so I
need
>to format and wipe C drive and reinstall everything.
How
>do I erase all the files on C drive (and any lingering
>problems), and reformat it.
>Thanks for your help.
>.
>
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