Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

2009-12-27 Thread t.piwowar
On Dec 27, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Gail Miller wrote: My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

2009-12-27 Thread Fred Holmes
He should be able to do that while re-installing Windows, although I haven't installed Win7 yet. When you boot from the installation CD, read the prompts/instructions carefully. They should give you an option to remove the existing partitions, one or all. Fred Holmes At 03:41 PM 12/27/2009,

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

2009-12-27 Thread Tony B
Yes, but you and a few others that think boot sector viruses are common are either deluded or just ignorant. Did you even bother to try to find a common Windows 7 boot sector virus before you posted this statement? The shame is that with so much noise in the thread she got totally swamped and miss

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

2009-12-27 Thread db
Gail, It will be a little faster for you to google the answers to some of the tech questions like "how to delete partitions with Windows 7" http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=how+to+delete+partitions+with+Windows+7&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=e8aec8f715611eed and use us for the bigger picture stuff

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

2009-12-27 Thread Stewart Marshall
He must use it and run Fdisk to see and then remove the partitions. Stewart At 02:41 PM 12/27/2009, you wrote: HI again ... My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Wo

Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again

2009-12-27 Thread Gail Miller
HI again ... My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in advance!