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moden
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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 Posted: 11/28/06 - 05:00 Post subject: How to Reformat Hard Drive? |
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Until recently I've had some major virus trouble, and it looks like I got rid of most of it, but my system seems to have taken some permanent damage in the process. It works real slow at times, and takes a long time to boot. Also, applications sometimes inexplicably die, i.e. "perform illegal operations and blah, blah". So, I've decided to reformat and reinstall Win XP, but I don't know what to do about the data I back up. I suppose moving everything to a non-boot partition is out of the question, security-wise? On the other hand, if I burn ghost images of some of the data, won't I carry over the residue viruses and cause the same situation with my future OS install? I really need some advice here, and I apologize for my ignorance.
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bethel
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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First of all, your current problems sound like messed-up system symptoms, not actual virus-related issues. If that is the case, and your AV utility can't find any trace of infestation, you're good to go with the reformatting and backup. The system wipeout will clear up the current issue, and the non-system data that you back up shouldn't be able to renew the problems in any way. Regarding backup, even if you do have trojans and viruses, they can't infest any kind of data; for example, it would be perfectly OK to backup media files or pdf documents, but not installations (potentially corrupted) or any sort of executable. (You can move those too, but only if you scan them first.)
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