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juan adames

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I have a simple question does anyone knows of a program that i can use to clean-up harddrives.
in other words to delete the intire drive even if it has virus's, malware etc. thanks .:)
 
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Boot from Windows CD, let it do it's thing and when it comes to where it asks where to install Windows, format it and you're done. Or you could put the HDD into any system, go to Disk Management in Windows and format it.
 

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Boot from Windows CD, let it do it's thing and when it comes to where it asks where to install Windows, format it and you're done. Or you could put the HDD into any system, go to Disk Management in Windows and format it.

erock i already tried this on a asus crosshair( 590) but when i boot the pc at first i get an error mesagge saying (check disk error) then nothing happens. can a virus have anything to do with this?.
 
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just format the drive any old way - even a quick format makes it so the programs and files cannot be read (Without doing data recovery) making all viruses useless.


If you cant even format a drive, odds are the drives just stuffed and its not a virus.
 
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