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    Sep 16, 2010, 08:37 AM
    How to wipe out hard drive with windows vista
    I have a mild virus. I want to wipe everything out and restart I have back up disk also but I want it gone before I put the backup disk in because I don't want a virus on it
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    Sep 16, 2010, 08:49 AM

    Since you can't infect a closed session CDR, when you try to set it up, use the option to delete the partition, then create a new partition and do a full format, not a quick format.
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