how to format win me for virus ridden hard drive

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My son's computer has multiple viruses and he is using Windows me. Can
anyone help me (step by step is you can)format the hard drive to clean
everything off and start over. The virus protection program we have did not
take care of the viruses that are on the computer. We have tried everything
we can think of, so we are at the last resort...FORMAT.

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.
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Re: how to format win me for virus ridden hard drive by siljaline

siljaline
Mon Dec 27 03:49:11 CST 2004

"gib" wrote:
> My son's computer has multiple viruses and he is using Windows me. Can
> anyone help me (step by step is you can)format the hard drive to clean
> everything off and start over. The virus protection program we have did not
> take care of the viruses that are on the computer. We have tried everything
> we can think of, so we are at the last resort...FORMAT.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

http://aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm

Silj

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Re: how to format win me for virus ridden hard drive by Mike

Mike
Mon Dec 27 13:06:05 CST 2004

The information you are looking for are contained in the file CLEANHD.TXT
which is in the Win 9x folder on the Win Me CD and also as KB271673 -
"Windows Millennium Edition Cleanhd.txt File Contents"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=271673).

See also KB255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to
Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).
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gib <gib@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> My son's computer has multiple viruses and he is using Windows me.
> Can anyone help me (step by step is you can)format the hard drive to
> clean everything off and start over. The virus protection program we
> have did not take care of the viruses that are on the computer. We
> have tried everything we can think of, so we are at the last
> resort...FORMAT.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.
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