Dumping hard drive?

Question

My daughter is completely dumping her hard drive due to the many viruses she downloaded onto her computer. She is transferring all of her important folders onto her ipod, flash drive and various cds... how can she go about completely dumping her hard drive and starting with a clean slate? Help is greatly appriciated!

Answer 1

she just needs to reformat her hard drive and reinstall windows, if her comp is full of viruses maybe she shouldnt keep all those fies incase a virus is lurking in one of them

Answer 2

backing up files on to ipod, flash drive and various cds there maybe viruson them files your daughter is backing up the best thing to do is scan da pc for virus you can remove them without having to format da pc

Kaspersky .antivirus
AD-aware - personal
avg antispyware
spybot search and destory
anitspyware blocker
A-squared
spyware doctor
xoftspy

you download them . then you run 1 at a time to scan ur pc . use deep scan with them all .when found spyware or addware .malware .trojan in da scan . just hit on delete.also have registry machanic . that will clean up ur pc registry you want to use a good anitivurs .. Kaspersky .antivirus is verry good .when you have scan ur pc .and remove da malware . then start pc in safemode and scan da pc again as in safe mode it will do a even more deep scan for spyware or malware or trojans you will not need to format da pc at all you can remove any spyware or trojan malware in da way i told you how to it is easy