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I have a dell laptop. It has become completely infected with a virus. I know the hard drive is infected because it has shut down administrator and keeps showing warning that system 32 is not usable. I would like to completely wipe out my hard drive bringing it back to factory status but I don’t have the restore disk. Is this something I can do without the disk? If so, how? Thanks!
I don’t have the recovery disk for the laptop and I don’t have any for any of the other computers as well. Never got one with them.

Best reply by November Rain:

the only way other than ripping it out of your computer is too download something and without administrator approval that may be tough or impossible, one thing to try, go into safe mode, restart, press ” F 8 ” repeatedly, and download this to clean it up, it is one of the elites..

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if you do not want to do that try this then…….

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I have viruses and want to reformat my hard drive. If i use my recovery partition and restore my pc to factory settings and etc, does it completely reformat my hard drive and clean the slate completely?
If i update from xp to vista home premium, can i make another recovery partition after i install vista in case i need to reformat my drive again?

Best reply by Jim:

Yes, it will wipe the current partition out and reinstall the operating system to factory settings.

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can i reformat my hard drive with my recovery partition?

I accidentally completely erased everything from my computer. I tried to do a system restore and restored it to factory settings. It is a compaq presario c500. I came across a product called search and recover, but I do not know if this is what I need. I also came across a product online called ontrack data recovery which sounds ok, but costs an arm and a leg. Is there anything out there that can help me get all my important information back?
What I did was a system recovery and not a system restore. Ant ideas?

Best reply by thehoydojo:

It’s called make backups or suffer the consequences.

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Does anyone know of good data recovery software?

My laptop’s hard drive is far too small anymore, and I’d like to install a larger one. I don’t mind formatting the old one or doing a clean installation for everything all over again. I JUST NEED MORE SPACE!!! I have a recovery disk for my laptop that has Windows XP Home and all my other factory settings on it. Will this work okay for a new installation?

Best reply by Edward1983:

no it will not install windows

a recovery disk instructs windows to rewrite itself and install drivers thats all it does not install windows itself

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Can I do a clean installation to a new hard drive with my recovery disk that came with my laptop?

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