Because LJ knows all...

My husband sold his HP on eBay.

Before doing so, he reformatted the hard drive and reloaded WinXP on it from the recovery discs. A diagnostic showed no bad sectors on the hard drive.

The buyer is claiming that a virus wiped out the hard drive and is "hoping that the motherboard isn't affected."

So I ask: Is it possible for a virus to do this? Wouldn't a reformat and reload wipe out a virus?

Because LJ knows all...

My husband sold his HP on eBay.

Before doing so, he reformatted the hard drive and reloaded WinXP on it from the recovery discs. A diagnostic showed no bad sectors on the hard drive.

The buyer is claiming that a virus wiped out the hard drive and is "hoping that the motherboard isn't affected."

So I ask: Is it possible for a virus to do this? Wouldn't a reformat and reload wipe out a virus?

Speaking of computers...

Mine is now a widescreen.

Meaning that most of my wallpaper is obsolete.

So, rather than editing the not!kkbb/im thing into some semblance of readability, I'm...making wallpaper. They're pretty basic, but I like them (mainly because I can squish my word processor over to the left side of my screen). Also, Sherlock Holmes, because I needed some SH wallpaper like burning.

Teasers:






1024x600 images under the cut.

( Why hello thar, Mr. Downey, you are looking fine today... )

X-posted at robertdowney_jr.

Speaking of computers...

Mine is now a widescreen.

Meaning that most of my wallpaper is obsolete.

So, rather than editing the not!kkbb/im thing into some semblance of readability, I'm...making wallpaper. They're pretty basic, but I like them (mainly because I can squish my word processor over to the left side of my screen). Also, Sherlock Holmes, because I needed some SH wallpaper like burning.

Teasers:






1024x600 images under the cut.

( Why hello thar, Mr. Downey, you are looking fine today... )

X-posted at robertdowney_jr.