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My old hard drive seems infected with virus and I need to format it and clone my back up drive to this formatted drive using hdclone. I booted thro win xp cd and then formatted from there but still seems some problem. Any other software that does full formatting from boot mode? <br />
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My old hard drive seems infected with virus and I need to format it and clone my back up drive to this formatted drive using hdclone. I booted thro win xp cd and then formatted from there but still seems some problem. Any other software that does full formatting from boot mode? 
Thanks.


Any software to format hard drive from boot mode?

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