Having trouble reformating Harddrive after virus

[techwanabe]

A friend of mines kid got the Trojan.Vundo.H on his computer according to a scan I did for him. So far I've tried a rogue removal kit but some of the applications crap out. I've even gone as far as to run the Windows XP pro install disk to reformat the hard drive but it tells me there is no drive present. However, the computer will boot to the hard drive if allowed to and then you get all the popup message boxes from the malware.

Suggestions?

 

[RebateMonger]

It sounds like the hard drive is SATA in AHCI mode, and it needs a driver for the Windows installer on the CD to see the hard drive.

 

[Blain]

Use Kill Disk to write zero's across the whole drive.
Then go in and partition & format.

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
It sounds like the hard drive is SATA in AHCI mode, and it needs a driver for the Windows installer on the CD to see the hard drive.

Could be right, I've never tried formatting SATA before. This one has a plug like I've never seen on the hard drive. Even my Dell SATA drive doesn't have the one like on this Gateway.

How do I get a driver on there so I can format the darn thing?

 

[techwanabe]

ok, this shouldn't be rocket science people. Many computers are SATA these days but I admit I don't have experience here. How do I install WinXP when it won't recognize the disk drive? I tried F6 booting from the WinXP disk but it says SetUP could not find a floppy drive on the machine to load OEM drivers. WTF? Newer computers don't come with floppies anymore.

Edit, the drive was set to RAID in the bios. I reset to AHCI and will see what happens.

 

[Blain]

* Are RAID and AHCI the only options for the BIOS setting?
* Did you write zero's to the drive with Kill Disk? It boots from an ISO CD, so no F6 drivers needed.

 

[techwanabe]

Originally posted by: Blain
* Are RAID and AHCI the only options for the BIOS setting?
* Did you write zero's to the drive with Kill Disk? It boots from an ISO CD, so no F6 drivers needed.

IDE was the third choice. The allows the install disk to see a hard drive.

There is an H drive 4mb FAT32
and a C drive 472,772 mb NTFS

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: techwanabe
IDE was the third choice. The allows the install disk to see a hard drive.

Yeah. If it works in IDE emulation mode, then the problem is drivers for the RAID or AHCI modes. XP will ONLY accept drivers from either a floppy disk or those that are built-into the XP Install CD (either from Microsoft or by slipstreaming additional drivers into a customized XP Install CD).