My brother said he got a virus from his e-mail, he noticed big slow done on his computer and then it started crashing and finally would not boot even to safe mode.
He shipped me his computer to see what I could do; the first thing I did was I try booting up with Partition Magic boot disk and checked the disk for errors and it found over a half dozen errors. So I decided just to reformat with Partition Magic and re-install his software for him. I reformatted and put Windows XP Home CD in and tried to install the OS mid way through copying the files it gave me a BSOD with a page fault and locked up. I tried hard booting and got an error that it could not load Windows.
I then re-booted with Partition Magic and checked for errors and get : did not mount properly error. This happens every time I try to reformat and re-install the OS it does not matter if I format with Partition Magic or let Windows format during installation via quick or normal.
Now I am not sure if the haddrive is just bad, (it?s only about six months old) or reformatting is not getting rid of the virus he got.
Any suggestions?