So the virus that knocked my compy out of comission like 3 weeks ago is nasty and I cant open anything. So I'm thinking of just going with windows 7 and starting from scratch. A couple questions. I have a 2nd internal hard drive (1 TB) that I can just put all the stuff on it that I want to keep. Will upgrading to Windows even get rid of the problems with the virus? And Doing a new install wont delete things on the 2nd internal hard drive will it? Gracias!
sorry I worded that weird. I mean I have 2 hard drives. 1 300 GB Factory hard drive. And 1 TB Hard Drive so 2 total Hard Drives.
I would make your 1 TB your primary drive and the 300 GB your secondary drive. Install Windows 7 on the 1 TB drive.
doing a clean installation though (I assume I would have to do that, that way I wouldnt bring the virus with me) would I risk losing all my files?
also if I'm doing a clean installation would I be able to just get the upgrade version, or do I have to buy the whole deal since I dont wanna bring the virus with me.
If the virus is as bad as you say it is I would install Windows 7 on a formatted drive (meaning completely blank) so anything on that drive would be erased after you formatted it. I would buy a new hard drive, install Windows 7 64bit, get all the updates, install your anti-virus, then plug in your old 300 gb primary hard drive and use the anti-virus program to clean it, transfer the files you want to keep to your new hard drive, unplug the old drive 300 gb primary drive, plug in the old 1 TB drive, clean it with your anti-virus program, transfer the files you just copied on the new drive to the old 1 TB drive.
If you go the new hard rive route you should be able to get an OEM version of Windows 7 with the HD for cheap.
I hate that fools like to screw up computers like that. It's soooo lame! That is why I own a mac. I may not have every game on the planet; but at least I feel safe knowing there aren't a virus around to destroy my computer.
Yeah, I guess that's the price to pay if you don't want to lose your documents with a debilitating virus crash. :MARIS61:
Can you copy your documents, I'd just drag and drop the files. The virus may be in those files though and they could be infected I guess. Then do a clean install. Going to Windows 7 won't do anything different.
I can switch files back and forth from HD to HD no problem. I'm just hoping that the 2nd Hard Drive is basically just storage so when I install the new windows it wont touch the stuff in the 2nd HD. That would make it much easier at least lol. I dont think any files would be in the 2nd HD though cause I usually place stuff on my Factory HD and then transfer over what I want to keep (mainly a crap load of bit torrented shows) but I havent transferred anything since the virus.
