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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Deputy49 on 24 April 2002, 23:40

Title: Software Question
Post by: Deputy49 on 24 April 2002, 23:40: I use adaware for spyware and have used cccleaner for removing hidden webpages, but is there a software program that will allow you to look at the hidden emails and clean them or not.
Thanks.
Title: Software Question
Post by: voidmain on 25 April 2002, 02:01: FORMAT.COM works well for this... If you don't want to wait the required time for FORMAT to clean up your mail folders you can just use the faster version called FDISK.EXE.
Title: Software Question
Post by: Fredledingue on 25 April 2002, 03:33: any link for download?
Title: Software Question
Post by: gnomez on 25 April 2002, 03:36: It's already on your computer; simply open a DOS box and type format [letter of drive you want to clean mail from]

Hit y and you should be just fine!
Title: Software Question
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 April 2002, 03:49: in DOS type "format c:"
then when it asks you if you want to clean the drive press y
(http://smile.gif) thats all there is to it.
Title: Software Question
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 April 2002, 06:06: quote:
Originally posted by X11:
And if you are trying to do that to a drive that windows is INSTALLED on boot from a Windows 9x CD or a Bootdisk, you can get these at bootdisk.com

If your BIOS has it, theres anohter called
"Low Level Format" try it just press del or whatever gets you BIOS setup at boottime.

shut the fuck up man! we were helping them clean spyware from their windows computer. Not delete everything on their hard drive ;) *wink* *wink*
Title: Software Question
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 April 2002, 07:12: quote:
Originally posted by X11:

Format /q

what does that do?
Title: Software Question
Post by: voidmain on 25 April 2002, 07:35: Yes, but "echo y | format c: /u" will have a longer lasting effect.
Title: Software Question
Post by: Deputy49 on 26 April 2002, 21:56: Thank you very much.
Title: Software Question
Post by: Master of Reality on 27 April 2002, 02:24: quote:
Originally posted by VoidMain:
Yes, but "echo y | format c: /u" will have a longer lasting effect.

what does the "/u" afterwards do?
whats wrong with plain ol' "format c:"?
Title: Software Question
Post by: voidmain on 27 April 2002, 07:24: "Unconditional", it takes longer but it is more thourough. I think it wipes both copies of the FAT so an "unformat" is not possible and it clears every block on the partition. But that's a Winblows thing.. I hate talking Winblows.