Since my computer has so many viruses that I can't find and get rid of so I've just decided to wipe everything off my hard drive and put it back on.
What's the best way to save all of my data (pictures, documents, music)?
(Also, if you know, do I just press F10 on start up to go to the screen to wipe out my hard drive?)
2007-03-12 12:59:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
* I have 3.74 GB of music
2007-03-12 13:12:29 · update #1
You can try buying an external hard drive or burn your data to a CD. I'm not sure how much data you're talking but it sounds like a lot so I'd go with the external hard drive idea. Keep in mind, you need to make sure that all the files you're moving over are virus free before you put them on your reformatted machine, otherwise you're going to have the same problem all over again. Make sure you clean them up first.
2007-03-12 13:03:40 · answer #1 · answered by rowancompsciguy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
easiest way is to put your documents onto a CD or DVD, so you need a burner
to wipe your hard drive, just put in a boot disk or an XP cd, then:
for the boot disk, wait until it boots up to the A:/> prompt, then type fdisk, then just follow instructions on screen
for the XP cd, boot from the cd, then go into the recovery console, then type diskpart, then follow instructions on screen
these are the two easiest ways of wiping a hard drive
also, make sure to get some good antivirus software so this doesnt happen again, like maybe Ad-Aware or AVG
2007-03-12 20:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by matenzi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dude try this the trend micro free virus scan with the interweb turned off then the free lavasoft scan at ad aware then try the spybot remover these are free now go to microsoft and update the security for trojans make sure the firewall in security in control panel is on all done now do a disc cleaner after deleteing the files and the history and the cookies in tools in the browser ,, now dio a defrag twice then place the restore on this date ,, now you may be clean and safe or go buy a new hard drive at walmart and drop it in but remember to do the cd/rw on two discs just run virus scans on individual files before they are exported to the disc
2007-03-12 20:11:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could first try disabling system restore (as virus get locked into these restore files and thus re-install themselves after you think you have removed them)...install a good antivirus package such as avast home version (its free) www.avast.com and update it and run a deep scan including archives. also download a couple of antispyware programs and do the same. www.spybot.com & www.lavasoft.com (both free) counterspy and xoftspy se (both you need to pay for but very good) if they cant get rid of your virus's then consider the wipe clean method. burn all your files you want to keep to dvd's
2007-03-16 15:48:20 · answer #4 · answered by david_m_grogan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if its alot of stuff u may want to use an extra harddrive if you have 1 but format it 1st.
if its somthing small ur saving you could get a cheap 1 or 2 gig flash drive.
good luck
2007-03-12 20:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by coolslamma 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the best way is to burn them all into a recordable cd CDR, but for you to do that, you should have a cdwriter, this is the best way to backup files.
2007-03-12 20:26:05 · answer #6 · answered by jhust b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i suggest you get rid of the viruses first get "hijackthis",it's free,run it,it's gonna give you a file log,go to this web site http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/
get registered and post your hijackthis log,they're gonna tell you how to get rid of them
2007-03-12 21:59:57 · answer #7 · answered by milio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put it all into folders and name them the save them to disk
2007-03-12 20:53:04 · answer #8 · answered by silly m cant dowload exe setup 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.flash-memory-store.com/external-usb-hard-drives.html?OVRAW=USB%20data%20storage&OVKEY=usb%20data%20storage&OVMTC=standard
2007-03-12 20:03:51 · answer #9 · answered by helpdesk916 ♦♣♠♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋