dannyual767
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On Friday, I picked up a virus on my 2 yr old Toshiba Satellite (running XP.) The virus wiped out and deleted my wireless driver, reset the date to Jan 2005 and caused super slow boot up from stby. Only God knows what else it did. Since I couldn't restore my wireless driver, I decided to reformat the laptop. I've done it before to this Toshiba so I'm familiar with it.
Anyway, the Toshiba will no longer reformat. It says that there is an error in the reformat process. I tried loading the reformat disc several times and one time it said, "DLLs kernal. Contact your administrator." On another reformat attempt, it said that it couldn't open Windows.
I'm wondering if there is any way the virus could've ruined the HD. I've replaced laptop HDs before but I just don't want to waste my money if that isn't the problem.
Anyway, the Toshiba will no longer reformat. It says that there is an error in the reformat process. I tried loading the reformat disc several times and one time it said, "DLLs kernal. Contact your administrator." On another reformat attempt, it said that it couldn't open Windows.
I'm wondering if there is any way the virus could've ruined the HD. I've replaced laptop HDs before but I just don't want to waste my money if that isn't the problem.