olivier1984
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I too think that if I try to reformat/reinstall windows, it'll be really slow and probably will freeze before I manage to finish, so I don't think it's the best option for my PC.
I am pretty sure the hard drive is fine. It starts windows without any delay, I can browse the disk in explorer easily too (well, if not doing anything else at the same time, otherwise 100% cpu and zzzz...). And I recently did a defrag for my main HD, it went fine and didn't report any errors.
Spyware, adware, trojans, virii - all part of the Windows fun. If you are not protected, learn and do so before connecting to the net AFTER you reformat and reinstall. I think that is your best bet for a lot of reasons. Some folks like to patch it up and try to keep it running, but a fresh install solves all Windows problems (for a while).
I can tell you my PC was well protected before this happened. I had an anti-virus running, a firewall, did spyware scans regularely, etc.
Olivier
I am pretty sure the hard drive is fine. It starts windows without any delay, I can browse the disk in explorer easily too (well, if not doing anything else at the same time, otherwise 100% cpu and zzzz...). And I recently did a defrag for my main HD, it went fine and didn't report any errors.
Spyware, adware, trojans, virii - all part of the Windows fun. If you are not protected, learn and do so before connecting to the net AFTER you reformat and reinstall. I think that is your best bet for a lot of reasons. Some folks like to patch it up and try to keep it running, but a fresh install solves all Windows problems (for a while).
I can tell you my PC was well protected before this happened. I had an anti-virus running, a firewall, did spyware scans regularely, etc.
Olivier