[Tommy161]

My computer was recently attacked by a trojan and I called out a repair guy to fix it, he installed a copied version of XP pro which of course didn`t help in the least, it got my comp back up and running but I was unable to update anything because of it.

I bought a legitimate XP Home disc and installed it, it formatted my C drive first then installed, the problem I nw have is that when my comp boots up initially it shows both OS as the XP Pro must still be there somewhere.

My comp is partitioned into 3 separate drives and Windows is on my C drive, what I want to know is if I F disc my computer (which is an option given on the XP Home disc start up)
Will it only F disc my C drive or will it do every drive and lose the games and files stored on them?

The reason I am considering this is there is obviously a conflict somewhere between the 2 OS and it is making my comp run very sluggish.

[l00k1n]

Had same probs long ago with win2k - used an old dos bootdisk to format the hd (yup - with fdisk) - worked for me --- nowadays these times are luckily over - using linux (sidux) right now :D --- maybe you give it a try - its not that hard as I ever thought
BUT troys & viri have it much harder :D - so give it a try -- just download for free and check out the live-cd - you'll get used to it - and nope - I'm not getting paid for advertisement :D

Hope it helped..

[ScottGem]

FDisk is used to manage partitions. You don't need to FDisk unless you want to change the partition setup. If Windows is not on any other partition, you can run MSCONFIG and modify boot.ini to remove the entry for dual boot.

[Tommy161]

Thank you guys that was tiptop... all sorted now... :)