if i had a windows disc i could just use that to repartition reformat and reinstall but my disc drive wont run a burned version of win xp because sometimes older disc drives wont run burned discs that are burned from other pc's ive heard. i forgot if it was this forum or another that i heard that on. so the burned win xp pro disc i tried to use wouldnt boot.

the virus that pc has is a trojan prorat virus, or a RAT (remote administrative tool) that gives other pc's access to your pc. it can get in undetected by firewalls and antivirus progs, so i need to just reinstall windows and wipe the drive. thats the problem. the virus has decayed some files too..like my video card driver..thats all it got to. so after i install a new copy of windows, i need to find the driver to my video card, etc.

but yeah, im having problems finding a disc for some reason. everyone is stingy, it sucks. haha.

i might have to downgrade to win xp home. its not much worse than xp pro, but meh. im used to pro.