My sister has a newer Compaq with XP HE. The PC has a "Recovery Partition"
(D drive) instead of XP or recovery CD's. Her kids virused it up real bad,
and I used the F10 option to recover. After recovery, there were still some
old programs in there, plus some viruses. Can the Recovery Partition have
gotten infected also? Is there a way to do a clean re-install on the PC that
has no CD's? Thanks much.

Short answer: "Flush" System Restore of all Restore Points after having
removed viruses/Trojans/hijackware. See
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...01111912274039.

Using a Restore Point from a time when the machine was infected will
reinfect the machine.
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DK1000 wrote:

Thanks PA Bear,

but I'm not using System Restore, but the actual Recovery that's "supposed"
to make the PC like it came "from the factory". I would think that would
supercede any System Restore settings.

"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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DK1000 wrote:

No. Your sister did not do the full destructive factory restore. Compaqs
and HPs have a choice - you have to go to the Advanced settings in
their restore program (F10) to do the full factory restore.

Malke
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www.elephantboycomputers.com
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MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

OIC. See Malke's reply.

DK1000 wrote:

Thanks, I'll try the F10 advanced settings today, I didn't notice that
option last time, but I was there half awake at 2am trying to do it, maybe
that had something to do with it.


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DK1000 wrote:
Yes, any partition can get virus infected.


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