Windows 10: Help With a Virus and Partitioned Drives

For some context, I was playing a game and my PC suddenly became really slow, turns out my CPU and disk was being used 100% which was weird. I did digging and found weird tmp files running in the resource manager and I couldn't erase them, I tried reinstalling windows with the factory reset command but it wouldn't allow me to as it was presenting me with an error, and even though I had an Internet connection and could use Edge, albeit slowly, in the bottom right I had no network anymore, so the reinstall would only be local and therefore the virus would have maintained itself in my view. I tri

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Partition or multiple hard drives?

As the title suggests. Is it worth installing say a 36GB drive for the OS soley or partitioning an existing larger drive with either 2 or more partitions? I am currently running Vista 32bit and want to try out 64bit and am sick of reformatting the whole drive. Any suggestions?

 

Help! Data partition not showing under my computer

This is happening on a windows 2000 server. Our second partition of the system, for data is not showing under my computer. Here are the properties of it in disk management:





Now under logical drives its listed as F and shows free space available.

Suggestions on how to fix this?