Want to wipe my C drive, but it contains my OS?

[Thramo]

I'll say this as briefly as I can! PC has a lot of junk on it now, including some viruses and malware that won't go away. I want to completely wipe it. I've moved everything I want to keep to my D drive, where I keep all my games and my steam folder. I thought if I go ahead and just format the C drive, I could reinstall the OS with my disc from the BIOS. I then realised that I couldn't format the disk with the OS on, because the OS is required to format the disk. I'm sure you guys know what I mean, so can you tell me what to do? It's windows 7 by the way.

Thank you

 

[Wolfshadw]

If you have an OS installation disk, boot from that. Part of the installation process includes the option to format the drive/partition.

-Wolf sends

 

[Thramo]

I've just been completely stupid. I didn't even think about being able to format from the disc. I forgot! Thanks for reminding me 😀