My roommate had a virus, will reinstalling Win98 automatically format?

[theonlymantis]

Does win98 automatically format upon installation? It didn't give an option for clean install or not. Should she reformat, or does Windows take care of this?

Goldie

 

[iNo712]

If she's willing to, she should reformat her computer. Reinstalling windows without a format is not gonna get rid of the virus.

 

[igiveup]

No, it doesn't format when it installs, unless there is no formatted drive already. iNo712 is right. In fact if you have a corrupted file it won't repair it most of the time. FDISK and use the /u command at the end for an unconditional format. It gets it all.

Line should look like this: format c: /u

 

[theonlymantis]

Okay, thank you very much! I will have her reformat. (I should say, SHE thinks it is a virus, but Norton said there were no virus. It did detect close to 100 errors, 4 of which could not be corrected though.)

Thanks for the help

Goldie

 

[DocDoo]

A very important thing to note!

Run the Norton anti-virus program from DOS. Running from DOS can eliminate any of "Nortons" GUI infected files from being intensionally bypassed by the virus.

 

[device]

Send your roommate to the doctor.