yet agian another computer prob

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Tuesday Jun 14, 2005

got a virus. need to format. cant. when doing so i get as far as the windows is checking or system screen. the big blue screen that comes up just befor it sarts to copy the files to begin the format. i am about ready to give up.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Tuesday Jun 14, 2005

Warning! This will destroy all data!

One thing I like to do is use Win9x boot floppies with fdisk and scandisk. If you delete the partition with fdisk, reboot and create a new partition, it should get rid of any lingering virus problems. If that doesn't do it try running scandisk:

Do a full "DOS" scandisk with surface scan to see if you have bad sectors on your disk. If you have bad sectors, it will mark them and then you should be able to continue. If you have a pattern of "B"s, like a B every 8 blocks, your hard drive is probably going bad and you should get a new one.

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Tuesday Jun 14, 2005

when i go to do the format and everthing just freezes the cd drive does nothing. like the computer is wating for info befor it continues.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Wednesday Jun 15, 2005

nighthawk wrote:when i go to do the format and everthing just freezes the cd drive does nothing. like the computer is wating for info befor it continues.

That is why I recommend a floppy boot disk with all the disk utilities on it.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Wednesday Jun 15, 2005

If you're reinstalling a 9x OS, one thing I like to do after formatting and partitioning is to copy the CAB files over to the hard drive, and then just run SETUP from there rather than the disk. That way you won't get prompted for your disk when installing new hardware.

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Wednesday Jun 15, 2005

thanks man i am all fixed up now. i ended up using a boot disk and wrighting 0's the the disk. i had to do it to both my hard drives before it would install windows. i used the scandisk type stuff and everything checked out. i really didnt know what i was doing so i just crossed my fingers. now i am going to cry cause i lost about 50g of some really cool stuff that i will probably never be able to replace.

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Wednesday Jun 15, 2005

one more thing. my computer has never ran this fast. not even when new. this is only about the 1000th format and never did it come out this good. i guess i did something right.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Saturday Jun 18, 2005

nighthawk wrote: this is only about the 1000th format and never did it come out this good. i guess i did something right.

1000 formats ?? Hmm .. Do you know what a system cleaning program is ?? I would suggest getting one .. What Os is it ?? If it is ME then I can see all the formatting you would have to do. But, the normal person only should have to reformat once every six months whether the pc needs it or not .. When I format a computer I use a Acronis True Image Image. If I don't have it available I fdisk it every time ..

Reason being, when you reformat, it over writes things, it don't delete anything per se. So, a lot of the files you had on it before the reformat are still there. People who write the viruses know this, they also know that a average computer user, one being someone who just uses it to check email and chat a little bit, never heard of fdisk ..

The reason the computer is running so fast is because you fdisked it. Usually, cleaning the Partition like that will make it go faster ..