im pretty sure my gf virused the new hd with keygens. kept loading to a dos type blinking prompt so i grabed the restore disk. crashed part way through and wont format the drive. is there anyway to salvage this thing or am i back where i started?

HA HA awesome! You sure the HD isn't dead? You can try something besides the restore disk to format, ie drive manufacturers utility which you should be able to download from their website.



Here's the BEST solution: http://www.apple.com/mac/

one of the smartest comments ive ever heard from phins.



finally people are coming around, and not for a reach around this time.



kevin.

And that's saying a lot because I am continually insightful and brilliantly dazzling with both intellect and bullshit.



I'm here for the reach around, i dunno what ******* memo you read.

i doubt it was dead may be now though. ill see if i can find a download hopefuly i can make the psp do it. and my next comp will be from apple

They don't make hard drives like they used to. Ten years ago, they would last until you ran out of space, or the computer it was installed in would become obsolete. Nowadays, they're likely to be the first part of your computer to crap out.

Homebuilt and Spybot FTW. **** you Windows Firewall!

Haha Kevin. Reacharounds







Sep you should get a new hard drive and run it as a new primary, install windows and crap, then put the old bad one in as a secondary drive and see what data you can salvage off it



as long as your running copy of windows isnt on that bad hard drive then you shouldnt pick up any garbage that its infected with.. just filter the files you want to keep with a scanner





but the hd is probably dead. 88RedTII is right cause that **** happens to me all the time. my computer is an old office worker computer that got liquidated to an electronics store and into my hands for 200 bucks. first thing i had to do was ditch the hard drive.

Because you buy junk Pc's and junk hardware that's why **** breaks, HP, Dell, Gateway, Sony all use the cheapest ******* hardware they can get their hands on. Last HP I bought, the day I ordered it from HP I ordered a GOOD hard drive, Seagate, 5 year warranty, yadda, yadda (keep in mind not ALL Seagates are good you need to pay attention to the model). 5 years never had one issue. Then people bitch cause a mac is so expensive, the reason for that is they don't use junk hardware, hell half of dells "new" computers use refurbed parts.

my brother has a nice mac, I'd buy one if I had the money to spend on it





I got other things to spend on so my old junkbox does me just fine