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Are you talking about a low level reformat or a quick reformat? Are you deleting your old partition or not. Have you tried Googling your question?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=can+a+virus+survive+format&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
A full hard disk reformat will wash away all the data including the virus. So, if your computer is infected by a serius virus, do a reformat and make sure you have back up all the important data.
Yes
No
If you do a normal and good reformat than the answer is ; no
You guys need to read his other posts.
http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=12327
I see , thanx
tanmx wrote:Yes
No
Maybe. Depends on where you reformat. Another user forgot to reformat their MBR, leaving the boot virus untouched.
Tech0utsider wrote:
tanmx wrote:Yes
NoMaybe. Depends on where you reformat. Another user forgot to reformat their MBR, leaving the boot virus untouched.
I'm glad you raised that point -- "virus" is not an exact definition these days and as you say some malware can attack and reside in parts of the the drive that would not be affected by reformatting.
That is why a simply reformat is never the answer. Writing zero’s to the drive will completely wipe a drive clean. I have tried this several times on a test hard drive I have. If you simply out your Windows CD in and reboot then delete your old partitions sometimes files can still be left over. I have 2 Seagate drives and the come with bootable software to wipe the drives clean ( writing zero’s). If I do that then do a low level format it works all the time. But fortunately I have not had to reinstall XP for over 5 years now.
This is the same as your other post. Please do not double post. There are several ways of reformatting. Some do a quick format which can leave stray files behind. Others do a full reformat. I myself always write zero’s to the drive and then verify that the hard drive is empty. I then reinstall XP. If a vuris is gone then its gone. If Norton found a virus and removed it then its gone. It very easy to check by simplky downloading and running several on deman scanners or even online scanners. If you doubt Norton then simply do what I suggested.