Tip & How-To about Computers & Internet
If u have been using ur machine for many years and have virus and trojen in it and it's working slow....
do this
take a full back up of ur data on to a DVD/Zip Drive/Pen drive/USB HD etc.
also go to ur My Computer and note using pencil/paper the C: drive size (the Total Size, Used space, and Free space)
Download killdisk from my website...link is below...
copy it on to a CD...also create a boot disk....ensure ur computer can boot from the boot disk...check boot seq in BIOS....if u cannot boot from CD.....
boot from the boot disk....once u get the A: or D: replace the boot CD with the CD that has the Killdisk utility...
Run the killdisk utility.....type "killdisk" in the D: or A: prompt...
when killdisk loads.....note very carefuly....which is ur C: drive (check from the paper that u noted earlier the details about the C drive)
use the killdisk utility(F10) and wipe the drive...all sectors will become 000000......once the progrma is finished....this will wipe ur disk clean and get back to factory settings....all ur virus/trojens and all corrupt data will be gone....it will say that the free version will do only ONE PASS....one pass is enough....u can always repeat the process again if u want more than 1 Pass....then u can format the HD and load Windows fresh and load all ur programs....the killdisk program takes aprox 1 hr to complete for a 20GB disk....so if u have 200 GB in C: it will take aprox 10hrs to finish.....so be cool and sleep...dont intrupt the process....it will finish...be quite and patience....
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