Virus preventing reformat of hard drive

[kbladez]

HP Windows 10 64 bit OS
Intel i7-6700 2.8Ghz
16gb ram

I got a pretty gnarly virus which just won't leave. I've been able to eradicate parts of the virus, but it's slowly getting worse. I'm trying to reformat my hard drive and it won't let me. The virus stops me from getting into safe mode. I finally figured out a way around it and got it into safe mode, but I still can't reset my pc. I've tried a bunch of different ways to do it using cmd and other work arounds. It seems the virus disabled any way of removing it. Thoughts? Help?

 

[Colif]

On another PC, download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB

only safe way to know virus is gone is a clean install

change boot order in BIOS so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach the screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and reactivate once finished

On the screen where you choose where to install win 10, if it gives you an error about GPT drives, delete all the partitions on the hdd and press next. If it still gives error, cancel out of the installer and restart PC and start installer again, it will accept next on that screen this time (some PC just need a restart here).

 

[anoori9000]

Do what Colif suggested, but once you boot up from the installer media, on the first screen, press Shift+F10. Type "diskpart". "List disk". "select disk (whatever number it is)". "clean".

This will wipe it before the install and make sure it is ready to go.

 

[Colif]

I did suggest a clean install, part of process is to wipe hdd anyway so doing a clean before the installer is just wiping drive twice. Nice idea though