For most viruses, yes. However, as the other people in this thread have stated, there are a few really nasty viruses out there that are programmed in such a way so as to avoid being removed by reformats. As a result, I would recommend that if you're reformatting due to a virus infection that you use a little program called DBAN ("Darik's Boot and Nuke") which actually wipes all the data on a drive (multiple times in fact) unlike a reformat which just removes the index entries for all the data but still leaves the data completely intact on the drive.
edit: Oh wow would you look at that, my 10000th post :o
For most viruses, yes. However, as the other people in this thread have stated, there are a few really nasty viruses out there that are programmed in such a way so as to avoid being removed by reformats. As a result, I would recommend that if you're reformatting due to a virus infection that you use a little program called DBAN ("Darik's Boot and Nuke") which actually wipes all the data on a drive (multiple times in fact) unlike a reformat which just removes the index entries for all the data but still leaves the data completely intact on the drive.
edit: Oh wow would you look at that, my 10000th post :o
For most viruses, yes. However, as the other people in this thread have stated, there are a few really nasty viruses out there that are programmed in such a way so as to avoid being removed by reformats. As a result, I would recommend that if you're reformatting due to a virus infection that you use a little program called DBAN ("Darik's Boot and Nuke") which actually wipes all the data on a drive (multiple times in fact) unlike a reformat which just removes the index entries for all the data but still leaves the data completely intact on the drive.
edit: Oh wow would you look at that, my 10000th post :o
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