Recent content by Nekorin

The latter, I'm talking about what to do in the instance of a virus that can't be removed.

Looks like I'll need to get another DVD-R for that, huh? Thank you for getting that link for me, I think it answers my question...

So the install DVD is what is needed for a reformat? Is that something I can make, or is there somewhere I can purchase it?I just checked the cd I was using, it is a repair CD, with 157 MB.

Sorry I've been away so long, it has been quite the week... It's just that I still don't quite understand why the process I used to reformat didn't work, why it didn't accept the disc..."This would require that you had set the bios to boot first from the optical drive."I don't understand this...

So can you reformat via the recovery method as well after virus damage? How would you go about that? That should satisfy my problem.

I'm also glad that I can now confront this problem in a relaxed way since my computer is currently healthy. What I attempted to do was to reformat by reinstalling windows7 via the control panel. Recovery> advanced recovery methods > reinstall windows. It then prompted me to insert the disc...

In this case it appears fortunate that I failed; restoring from the system image on my backup drive solved the problem completely, and with a lot less trouble than a reformat would have been... But I still wonder why the disc I inserted wouldn't aid in my reformat? I looked at it beforehand and...

My computer ended up with the malicious toolbar iminent. After multiple attempts to remove it I decided to reformat the computer, since my last backup is mercifully recent. However, when I attempted to run a repair disc, but in the middle of this I received the message in the thread's title...