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kickintheteeth · 2006-05-28 22:27:41

my laptop is full of viruses, and a load of things wrong with it. ive decided not to try and tackle all this and just reboot the whole thing. is there a way of completely wiping the whole hard drive, so as it is exactely as i got it when it was bought? ty

28-05-2006 10:27pm

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kickintheteeth

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my laptop is full of viruses, and a load of things wrong with it. ive decided not to try and tackle all this and just reboot the whole thing. is there a way of completely wiping the whole hard drive, so as it is exactely as i got it when it was bought?
ty

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#2 29-05-2006 1:43am

Riamfada

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Put in the boot disks you got with your laptop and boot from them which sends it back to day 1

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#3 29-05-2006 1:45am

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Use the cds supplied with your laptop (if you got any) otherwise use a bootdisk to get to the command prompt and format c:. Remember to keep any files you want of course and any drivers you havent got.

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