The details first; laptop running Win Vista Home Premium. A few months ago, I d/l'ed a file from a website that I thought was legit. It was for getting rid of some notification or something like that. Well, it turns out that it wiped out my laptop. The onlt screen I got after d/l'ing then turning it off then on, was "Boot disc failure" So now I ordered some recovery discs,ran them and I don't think that it did a true ,complete format. I did have to enter c.o.a. number. I do recall that one of the screens stated something about still having "windows.old", probably as a partition. Now, it does appear now with no icons at all. I ran the Avast! a/v before anything and it did find 2 infections. So, my question is, how can I redo the format and make sure it's a full format? Thanks.