hey sup guys, new to this forum. here my problem, i have this sony computer i brought back in 2004, it has a lot of viruses in it and everytime it would start screwing up i would just use system restore and everything would be fine, now i know the viruses are still in my harddrive, system restore is just a quick fix. so i decided to take action and started doing some searches on google on how to remove virus but everytime i put virus in the search bar and press enter the internet explorer would close instantly (how smart of them). anyways i came across "killdisk" and i was getting frustrated and was being a idiot and just pressed the "kill" bottom. my question is, is the harddrive gone forever? or is it recoverable? do i just need a new harddrive ?i just brought a new PC but i would like to get the old one running again, everything else is still good on it. any help or suggestion welcome
but i enter the "killed" button instead of the "wipe". i have a xp pro cd and is trying to insteall it. it's stuck on the screen where i have to create a "partition" but it won't let me do it? the harddrive is there but it won't let me install, i'm going to get a new harddrive and see if it works
alright, i just went out and brought a hard drive pata 160gb, installed it and its formatting now. i guess my old harddrive is really dead.
hi i've found on quite a few times that a hdd will not format on the pc it came out off...but 99% of the time would format on a differrent pc. so don't bin the hdd until you've tried to format it on another pc
thats weird, but thanks for the tip. anyways everything good now, have new harddrive just installing drivers now, i didn't back up any driver. so its a pain reinstalling.
Your old drive is probably still good. You can probably use it as a slave drive. Killdisk (contrary to it's name) is actually safe to use on a drive. It only kills the data on it.
i have set my new drive as master and the old drive as slave but, when i go to My computer my old harddrive does not show up? any idea?
oh nvm, found it in computer management reformating now. i guess i learned my lesson, well a 50$ lesson that is, learned something new so its all good.
