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A question about formatting your hard drive

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So my hard drive is full of spyware and I want to format that hard drive. Now I want to know if it will also delete Windows 8.

I have an additional storage which is named 'Data'; is Windows located there ?

Also how van I format my hard drive without deleting an antivirus ( bitdefender)

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So your HDD is partioned in a C: drive and D: drive? Or is "Data" just a folder on the C: drive?

I believe you can just format one partition, but the spyware is probably also installed on the C: partition, where Windows is installed too.

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If your formating you hard drive... You formatting your hard drive therefor loosing everything on that drive. Id recommend just re installing everything... Feels nice.

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if something gets to be a real pest I just prefer to reformat but OP have you run anti-virus/anti-spyware software in safe mode + no internet connection?  If not try that first before reformatting. 

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So my hard drive is full of spyware and I want to format that hard drive. Now I want to know if it will also delete Windows 8.

I have an additional storage which is named 'Data'; is Windows located there ?

Also how van I format my hard drive without deleting an antivirus ( bitdefender)

Thx for answering !

i would recomend that you bite the bullet and do a factory reset and restore, you dont want to risk there being spyware still in C:

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If your system is full of spyware, there is a possibility it's affected the windows files. If you were to format the D: partition, it might not completely fix your problem.

 

You could either do a full factory reset, or completely wipe the OS and start fresh.

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