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Guest
I recently formatted my hard drive.
Does formatting the hard drive with utilities that wipe it also erase the
Master Boot Record (MBR)?
I don't want to leave any trace of the old system, since it was viruses
infected. How do get rid of everything?
I know that the command fdisk/mbr is a good idea (but I didn't use that),
but if I use a Wiping utility that wipes C: and then re-intall everything,
does that also wipe the MBR?
What other places could a virus be hiding, what about BIOS/CMOS, is it
possible?
Regards,
Mike
Does formatting the hard drive with utilities that wipe it also erase the
Master Boot Record (MBR)?
I don't want to leave any trace of the old system, since it was viruses
infected. How do get rid of everything?
I know that the command fdisk/mbr is a good idea (but I didn't use that),
but if I use a Wiping utility that wipes C: and then re-intall everything,
does that also wipe the MBR?
What other places could a virus be hiding, what about BIOS/CMOS, is it
possible?
Regards,
Mike