I have a virus in my local disk c and if i format it will it delete the virus?

Formatting does not overwrite the disk data. It may be possible to recover information off a formatted hard drive. If you want to erase all the data off your hard drive so it can not be recovered, including viruses you need to overwrite the entire disk.





http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.h...


"You can find out the manufacturer of your HD and then attempt to download the formatting tool created by that manufacturer for their HD's. Most HD Mnufactuer have a Zero Fill Low level formatting tool available to erase their HD products. This will clean any existing OS files from your system as well as any viruses other files etc.."





Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) Free


http://www.download.com/Darik-s-Boot-and...


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles...


DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.





Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser (Free version/ $29.95 enhanced version)


http://www.killdisk.com/


Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact DOS software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. It's a hard drive and partition eraser utility.





WipeDrive by White Canyon $39.95


http://www.whitecanyon.com/

I have a virus in my local disk c and if i format it will it delete the virus?
Yes reformatting your c drive will remove all data, including virus-if it not in your random access memory. You could first try a virus remover like norton ot mcafee.


Good luck.


Joe
Reply:Yes. It will remove the virus along with everything else on your computer. It should be a last resort to reformat your pc. I hope you have backed up your files.
Reply:no it will remain their you have to remove it by sending to another place
Reply:yep........it takes everything out......everything is still recoverable....unless u do a low-level format...u might wanna try these to get rid of that virus first instead of losing all ur info......





go here and get AVG anti-spyware


http://www.ewido.net/en/





go here and get adaware se


http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html...





go here and get regseeker


http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html...





go here and get ccleaner


http://www.ccleaner.com/





all 4 r free..and all 4 work like a charm........