reformat hard drive

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Before last resort, how have you tried to eliminate?

"don" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c8b201c42251$068c2640$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I believe I have some spyware or adware on my pc and have
> tried numerous ways to eliminate the problem but have not
> had any luck. I feel my last resort is to reformat my hard
> drive and reinstall windows xp. How do I go about doing that?

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Go into your motherboards bios and change the settings to boot from cd, the
XP cd is bootable and that will allow you to format and reinstall.
"don" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c8b201c42251$068c2640$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I believe I have some spyware or adware on my pc and have
> tried numerous ways to eliminate the problem but have not
> had any luck. I feel my last resort is to reformat my hard
> drive and reinstall windows xp. How do I go about doing that?
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

http://www.lavasoftusa.com .. download and run Adaware..

also visit this site.. http://www.pchell.com/


"don" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c8b201c42251$068c2640$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I believe I have some spyware or adware on my pc and have
> tried numerous ways to eliminate the problem but have not
> had any luck. I feel my last resort is to reformat my hard
> drive and reinstall windows xp. How do I go about doing that?