Reloading Windows

[burymore]

I have a year and a half old Toshiba laptop that has a virus I simply cannot get rid of. I have used every sort of malware possible (AVG Anti Virus, Malwarebytes, Superantispyware) it will not go away.

Here is what the virus does. It has infected my system restore file, and if I try to restore my system back to an earlier date it claims that the system restore is disabled and needs an administrators permission to work. The worst thing it has done is its infected both Firefox and Internet Explorer, so if I do a search for say...computer help...it will instead send me to some porn or viagra site. Doesnt matter what the search is for.

So I am sick of it, and want to just save my important files, then reload windows from scratch. However I received NO discs when I bought the computer. I assume that a clean version of Windows is partitioned on here, but I have no idea how to go about reloading it.

So how do you do that? I have looked for methods on the internet, but they all require a boot disc or a Windows disc. How do you delete the version of windows I have and reload it from the partition? I need a step by step method....hopefully.

Thanks in advance.

[Seshomaru Samma]

First - copy all important data to an external device

Next try this:

Turn the laptop off

Press and hold the 0 (zero) key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook.

When the machine Starts beeping; release the 0 key.

When prompted by the warning screen; select Yes to continue with the system recovery.

If this doesn't work :

Hold the F8 key when the computer boots

If all this doesn't work

Google restore windows and your toshiba laptop model

Basically I have given you the most common ways to restore a Toshiba laptop but maybe your model has a different way which can easily be googled.