If my PC hard drive is infected with a virus, can I remove it by formatting the hard drive using my recovery DVD?
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Yes that would do it - of course anti-virus software is also an option
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yes that would be one way to do it.
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Yeah formatting erases everything on the Hard drive. Now if the virus is a boot virus in the BIOS of the system this would not fix the problem. Think of formatting as a painting. You are paint a picture and then some one comes and takes a brush with red paint. They start to smear it all over you paint. That is the virus. What formatting does is takes a roller with white paint and goes over the whole canvas restoring it to white. Now that DVD you have would restore the painting to a certain point.
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