repairing a hard drive

[hatefulreign]

how can i repair my hard drive from alot of viruses have infected it i removed all the viruses now its laging up in my games and then it goes back to normal and then when i play a game my cpu usage rasise to 100% and stays there untill i exit the game

 

[NokiaDude]

<COUGH> FORMAT /C: <COUGH>

 

[hatefulreign]

<cough> did that <cough>

 

[NokiaDude]

Hmmmm, you're going to need to do a high-level format. Basically find a program that writes 0's to the drive and then do a clean install of your OS of choice. Western Digtal supplies a program on the floppy you get with their HDD's. I dunno about Maxtor. I believe Partition Magic has a feature like that, I'm not sure. Basically I'm telling you that you need to erase EVERYTHING on the HDD. The MBR, Data, everything. This virus seems serious so writing 0's to the drive will work. It'll clean anything left on the HDD.

 

[hatefulreign]

i did that to man

 

[NokiaDude]

Ouch, then you're SOL. BTW, what OS are you running? XP needs SP1a and Windows 9.x needs all the updates you can get.

 

[hatefulreign]

SOL. BTW? what does that mean and im running xp and what do u mean by 9x

 

[NokiaDude]

SOL; So Outta Luck. 9.x: 95, 98, 98 2nd Edition, ME (basically 98 3rd Edition).

 

[hatefulreign]

so what is there that i can do

 

[NokiaDude]

RMA it. That's the only thing I can think of. Is it an WD of Maxtor? If it's an WD, I strongly suggest using the floppy that came with it to write zeros to the drive. I may sound like I'm repeating my self but something is telling me you only formated . . . . .

 

[hatefulreign]

ok it is a WD ill write 0s to it again ill be abck in like tommrow nite it should be done hopefully ok man ill write 0s again

 

[NokiaDude]

Ok, Good Luck!

 

[hatefulreign]

Hmmmm, you're going to need to do a high-level format how can i do a high level format ?

 

[NokiaDude]

What brand HDD is it ?!?

 

[beatle]

This thread seems to be going in circles. All games are going to use 100% of your cpu... that's not unusual. If you really think your installation is toast from viruses (you said you removed them?) NokiaDude is correct, though it's called a low-level format. If it is, as you say, a WD drive, use WD's utility to write zeros to the drive:

http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlginstall_10_0.exe

If your games are lagging, especially online more than usual, you might try searching for spyware on your computer with a program like AdAware or SpyBot. Spyware is a barely legal "virus" that can hamper your connection and send information about your browsing habits to another computer, change your browser's homepage, add unwanted icons to your desktop or pop up random ads.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: hatefulreign
Hmmmm, you're going to need to do a high-level format how can i do a high level format ?

format c: is a high level format. Low level formatting is impossible these days - it can only be done at the factory on new drives. The closest you can get is a zero-writer from the manufacturer.

What I do to kill drives: (this assumes you have only ONE hard drive - the infected one)
Make a boot disk on an uninfected PC; use the Win98SE, no RAMdrive disk from Bootdisk.com That should include the fdisk and format utilities.
Download ZAP (a file from IBM), and put it on the disk. Now do the little write protect tab on the disk to keep it safe from infection.
Put the disk in the infected computer, and boot off the floppy.
At the command prompt, type in zap 0, and confirm Yes. This'll take a fraction of a second to complete.
Now you should be able to Fdisk and format the drive again, using either the fdisk and format c: /u commands, or else boot off of a Windows CD, and do the disk setup/formatting through that.
This should kill the virus (and everything else) on the disk.

 

[hatefulreign]

my cpu usage rasise to 100% and stays there untill i exit the game


and what if u have already wrote 0s to my hard drive then what?

next time i reply ill tell yall how this all started

 

[OverVolt]

I don't think there's any problem at all. Maybe the game is just closing slow cuz it takes awhile to close

 

[hatefulreign]

ok ever since i downloaled kazaa lite i have been haveing this problem well its not kazaa lite and dumbass me was to stupid to find a good anitvirus i had zone alarm firwall on like an ediit well this is what i did i went ai got norton systemworks and it found over 10 viruses so i clean them all out and so i tryed to format my c drive and that didnt work so i tryed writeing 0s to it still didnt work now let me tell u what it does when ever i play a game its starts to lag up rly bad and then it goes back to normal and it does that through out the whole game randomly itll keep doing it until i exit the game and i have noticed when i run a game mosty any game my CPU usage rasies and stays at 100% until i exit the game

 

[oog]

When you wiped out the drive, I assume you needed to reinstall your OS. Is it possible that you have a problem in something like a video card driver installation? It's quite possible that you're now experiencing something non-virus related.

 

[hatefulreign]

i have updated the drivers and even switched video cards and it still gave me the same problem

 

[Gunbuster]

Is it in DMA mode?

 

[hatefulreign]

DMA mode? what is that

 

[hatefulreign]

can anyone help me out plz

 

[Afro000Dude]

Perhaps your computer is just too slow for the games you are trying to play.