wipe drive

Hi all, My fiance has a Dell Inspiron 15" laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium currently on it. She got a trojan (heur.html.maliframe) and instead of trying to go through the hassle of removing it, I thought it'd be a good time to wipe the HDD and go to Windows 7. My questions are: 1. I...

So I am building my first computer so i bought my new motherboard, processor,etc.. and windows 7, but i am using an old hard drive from my broken computer that has windows xp on it. Before it all gets to my house i was curious on how to wipe the hard drive and install windows 7. Can anyone...

I recently borrowed a windows 7 disk from a friend of mine. I wanted to wipe my hard drive clean because my laptop was getting slow from all my downloads. I popped in the CD and all was working fine. I got to the window where it asks me for my product key. I look on the bottom of my laptop...

i'm not sure i will want to install Windows 7 Pro for keeps, so i was going to install Windows 7 pro on my computer on an older, clean drive. if most of my 32-bit programs run well, i want to go ahead and remove that old drive and use my better drive in that computer. would that be considered...

I would like to know what the purpose of the "drive wiper" on CCleaner is for and whether it is safe to use? Your comments will be most appreciated

I am working on my bosses personal desktop. It had windows xp 32bit. Due to a virus the hard drive had to be wiped. He purchased windows 7 (32bit) to be installed. It's an older hp (about 3-4 years) with a intel pro VE 100 network card. the hard drive was completely wiped (including the...

I have a Sony VAIO laptop and tried out Linux on it. This gave me the Grub loader, where when I boot up I choose which OS to use. I want to get rid of Linux, - it uses half of my hard drive. I have two questions: 1. How do I uninstall Linux, getting rid of the Grub loader(it's in my...

So recently I've obtained a Free laptop from my uncle because he upgraded to a new one. He gave it to me be and said it has been crashed for 3 months. Of course I didn't believe him since I'm the computer Wiz not him. Anyways, I booted it up to Windows 7 and after 2 days it started doing...

Okay, Completing installation, BSOD, reboot. None of that would be a problem if I could now at least try and perform a re-install. Whenever I boot from CD it goes straight to loading up the OS, occasionally allowing me to choose between starting Windows 7, or starting the Windowns Memory...

Hi! I need to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, again. (if you recall my last post, you know why :) ) I'm going to wipe the drive and reformat and then reinstall Windows 7. My problem is that I have some games installed which have rather large updates that I had to DL (took an hour...

I previously had windows vista, 32-bit, and wanted to clean install windows 7 64-bit. I did... i think, everythign works fine, but i still have all my old files in a folder called "windows old" or something. What i kinda wanted to do was to completely wipe my computer clean, and start from...

Hey, I tried to search for this problem but could not find what I was looking for. I downloaded Windows 7 64 bit from my university via the MSDN AA program. I know that I need a clean install to upgrade this PC from XP to Windows 7. I downloaded the files and made the iso which I then burned...

Hi, I am thinking about purchasing Wipe Drive Pro for $90.00. Alternatively I could purchase the new Windows 7 if it had a feature to wipe my drive clean of older files with some kind of encription tech. I would rather spend the money on Windows 7 if it had this. Does anyone know if any of...

Hey everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 3000 (running XP) that I want to wipe the hard drive and install Windows 7. The problem is, the computer doesn't have a DVD drive. I can get Windows 7 Professional from my school for only $42, but it's the dvd hard copy version. So is there anyway I can...

Hi all I know there are several install threads, but I am not the most techie minded and get confused easily so thought I would start my own thread to keep track. Right I got win 7 upgrade student version, and new ssd to put it on, and installed it and works fine, but when I went to register...

Hello, I am currently using Windows XP Media Center Edition on my desktop PC which came pre-installed from the vendor. I dont have any license/serial number for this OS. The PC came with a recovery partition on the hard disk from which I can boot and reinstall Windows XP Media Center Edition...

Hi, It's my understanding that starting March 11th, those who are running W7 RC1 will experience an auto shutdown every 2 hours. Then, in June, the RC1 will lock you out of your system. Even if you buy the retail copy of W7 before June, there is no way to do an in place upgrade, rather, you...

I cannot find anyone with my exact issues on multiple forums. I successfully downloaded the legit RC, from Microsoft. burn to an image using the 7 beta iso burner. states successfully burned. Went to install and it Hung at the starting windows section. Did not get in to wipe drive or anything...

I have installed W7 32 on a laptop. It is running. I am now trying to install W7 64 on my desktop. I can't get past the drive partitioning screen. I deleted the partitions and repartitioned it and formatted it but it is still telling me it can't install on this drive because the hardware may not...