31-08-2015, 11:24 AM
I would go with a new hard drive and clean install.
A Linux install on a spare hard drive is a pretty bomb proof way of rescuing data from a damaged drive and can be used to back up all your data while you are at it.
Then you can format and Fdisk the old hard drive and kill all the viruses on it.
The partitions sometimes need to be removed also as some viruses can hide on drives that have just been formatted and not re-partitioned.
A Linux install on a spare hard drive is a pretty bomb proof way of rescuing data from a damaged drive and can be used to back up all your data while you are at it.
Then you can format and Fdisk the old hard drive and kill all the viruses on it.
The partitions sometimes need to be removed also as some viruses can hide on drives that have just been formatted and not re-partitioned.
