im having heaps of trouble trying to remove a boot system virus.

Ive been told to remove the partition and have done this by using fdisk. But then i was told to format my harddrive but i don't know how to do that when windows is not installed as i have formated it

any help would be very helpful

Hey DrewTB,

I don't believe that I've had the pleasure, so welcome to PCHF from me.

If you have removed, and then recreated and activated the partition using FDISK, you will need to restart your PC, using the bootdisk that you used to get to FDISK. This time at the command prompt, you will want to type in Format C:
This will format the HDD, then you can reboot with the OS CD and install.

Let me know if you have any difficulties.

Looking forward to your reply,

TTFN

LGW

yes im having difficulties.

i removed the partition using FDISK. then typed in format c:

i then got a message saying "this program cannot be run in dos mode"

Hey DrewTB,

What are you using to boot with?

LGW

floppy disk. the only other boot disk i have is my OS disk


i found a download of the program fdisk and copyed it to my a: floppy boot disk

OK, you need to go to Bootdisk.com, and download an XP bootdisk. Don't add Format to it, that comes with it. You should then be able to bootup and use the Format command.

If that doesn't work, use a 98SE bootdisk.

Looking forward to your reply,

TTFN

LGW