Whipe A Windows Hardrive Clean

So my friend is here and he has so many viruses/trojeans/worms etc. etc. We're not even going to bother trying to delete them.

So doesn't anyone know how to, without burning another Windows Cd, completely default it. Getting rid of everything on the hardrive that he added?

 

Do you have your original windows disc, or is it warez?

 

only way to get rid of all the ---- is by wiping the drive and starting fresh from a XP disc...

 

I don't have the cds, that's the point. >.>

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I don't have the cds, that's the point. >.>

 

Buy it or download it. I suggest buying it, downloaded copies are usually messed up.

 

not really, u just gotta know how to put them irgth...almost 75% of downloaded stuff work(torrents cought cougth)

 

Lol, most downloaded stuff does actually work. But anyway. >.>

 

you could possibly do a system restore, go back to the date when you installed windows. although some viruses linger in the system rerstore, so you wont get rid of every virus.

to get rid of the viruses, did you try Avast's boot time scan, which is like scanning in safe mode? that gets rid of most viruses that begin on start up.

 

yep start fresh from a disc or format the drive

 

If ya dont have original Cd, Get torrent one, But ya wont beable to update alot from Microsoft anymore

 

Go buy windows, its a little more than a hundred bucks on newegg.

 

thats probably oem...

 

Lol we've tried Norton Anti-Virus... =) The moment we installed it the worms and stuff started infecting it.

We ran it and it spent almost five hours deleting malicious things but the hardrive was still full of viruses. Meh, I'll talk him into paying for it

 

OEM = ?

Whats it matter?

 

BreakOut is a queer cuz he suxed me dry last night and i gave him a dollar