Ok to start out i caught a malware called spyaxe. so i tryed everything but
nothing worked. I then did a system restore , later i found out that was bad
to do with that malware. so a week later the spyaxe was no longer called that
it became spytrooper all the pop ups.. argh.. anyway i wanted to format the
hard drive and start fresh, but the windows disk would not let me format the
NTFS partition that the malware was on it just covered it up. so the point
i'm at now is i have 120gb hdd but it only says i have 50gb free disk space.
Also all programs that i have reinstalled all say that its already there but
i can't open it or do anything with the programs. so my question is how do i
fully format my harddrive so that there is no os on it?

Install xp cd,boot to xp cd,at cd boot menu select r for recovery,press enter
key for password,select 1 for C: drive to enter,then typeiskPart In
DiskPart,
delete the partition,then create one,then press ESC key,type:EXIT Let xp
restart,re-boot to xp cd,select,install xp.

"Bigone" wrote:

> Ok to start out i caught a malware called spyaxe. so i tryed everything but
> nothing worked. I then did a system restore , later i found out that was bad
> to do with that malware. so a week later the spyaxe was no longer called that
> it became spytrooper all the pop ups.. argh.. anyway i wanted to format the
> hard drive and start fresh, but the windows disk would not let me format the
> NTFS partition that the malware was on it just covered it up. so the point
> i'm at now is i have 120gb hdd but it only says i have 50gb free disk space.
> Also all programs that i have reinstalled all say that its already there but
> i can't open it or do anything with the programs. so my question is how do i
> fully format my harddrive so that there is no os on it?