Hi Guys,
bit of a dumb question, but, if it is a virus or a trojan of some sort that's causing the problem, if you actually transfer the programs etc from your old drive, to a new drive, could you also be transferring the virus or the trojan, and actually wreck your new drive as well??

I recently had something go wrong with my old netbook. Too dumb to work out what the problem was, but it had the option of formatting & returning it back to factory standard.
Does formatting & returning back to factory standard, kill a virus or a trojan, just in case that was the cause of my problem also.