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While I was away at school, my sister was using my computer daily
downloading tor files and creating a virus-infected community as she
was doing it. Now I have my computer back but the thing drags and
often freezes after clicking START. And some programs don't even open
at all. To top that, browser windows telling me to scan my hard drive
keep popping up. I've tried to clean up the hard drive but even some
programs won't uninstall. There are now over 200 programs installed on
the 250 gig hard drive. Before I left, I relocated the My-Documents
path to a folder located inside a WD 500 gig external drive. But that
incurred I/O errors last month though I was lucky enough to copy all
the data off before losing it completely. At this point I'm thinking
just to reformat the HD and start over with a new slate. Sort of a
self-inflicted crash (before the inevitable one anyway). What the
best way to go about this?
downloading tor files and creating a virus-infected community as she
was doing it. Now I have my computer back but the thing drags and
often freezes after clicking START. And some programs don't even open
at all. To top that, browser windows telling me to scan my hard drive
keep popping up. I've tried to clean up the hard drive but even some
programs won't uninstall. There are now over 200 programs installed on
the 250 gig hard drive. Before I left, I relocated the My-Documents
path to a folder located inside a WD 500 gig external drive. But that
incurred I/O errors last month though I was lucky enough to copy all
the data off before losing it completely. At this point I'm thinking
just to reformat the HD and start over with a new slate. Sort of a
self-inflicted crash (before the inevitable one anyway). What the
best way to go about this?