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<blockquote data-quote="IDSkoT" data-source="post: 5290420" data-attributes="member: 584344">reformatting a harddrive clears the data on the disk, and formats it in a certain format. (Duh). Either FAT32, or NTSC, etc.&nbsp; If you reformat a drive by itself, it&#039;s useless... basically it&#039;d be the same thing as it being a slave drive.But when someone says &#039;reformatting&#039; and they&#039;re talking about the Master drive, obviously they&#039;re gunna re-install windows, or another operating system.As for the OP&#039;s question, Google the name of the program. If it&#039;s a virus, they&#039;ll probably be links to forums where they answer how to remove it.I&#039;d also like to recommend a free virus scanning program that works really well, it&#039;s called Avira AntiVir. You can find it here: <a href="http://www.free-av.com/" target="_blank">http://www.free-av.com/</a>You don&#039;t have to buy the premium... but, obviously it&#039;s better. It&#039;s a decent, easy-to-use virus scanning tool that updates it&#039;s database daily... so it&#039;s really comprehensive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IDSkoT, post: 5290420, member: 584344"] reformatting a harddrive clears the data on the disk, and formats it in a certain format. (Duh). Either FAT32, or NTSC, etc. If you reformat a drive by itself, it's useless... basically it'd be the same thing as it being a slave drive. But when someone says 'reformatting' and they're talking about the Master drive, obviously they're gunna re-install windows, or another operating system. As for the OP's question, Google the name of the program. If it's a virus, they'll probably be links to forums where they answer how to remove it. I'd also like to recommend a free virus scanning program that works really well, it's called Avira AntiVir. You can find it here: [URL="http://www.free-av.com/"]http://www.free-av.com/[/URL] You don't have to buy the premium... but, obviously it's better. It's a decent, easy-to-use virus scanning tool that updates it's database daily... so it's really comprehensive. [/QUOTE]

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