Fried Computer Options

[Heewee]

Okay, so the computer at my dad's house had some pretty nasty viruses on it and the whole thing had been screwed up for awhile. I wanted to reformat the computer and start all over but when I went to do that, it wouldn't let me because some of the drivers weren't working correctly. The message said to find the defected drivers and disable them. I accidentally deleted a few essential drivers and I didn't know that they were essential until I tried to restart the computer. Now, the computer won't even boot up, I just get a screen that says it can't start the computer because a driver that is needed to start the computer is missing. It says that I can try installing the driver through the set-up CD but I have searched high and low and can't find it. I'm not sure how to fix this problem. The only answer I can think of is calling HP and asking them to send another one. However, I don't want to go through that mess if I don't have to and even if I did do that, they might not even give me a new one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[*mipadi*]

Well, your best bet would probably be to boot up from a Windows CD. Use it to reformat your hard drive and then just reinstall everything. However, this won't really solve your problem if you don't have the CD with the drivers on it anyway, unless Windows supplies generic drivers for the hardware.

What driver did you delete? Drivers can usually be downloaded from the manufacturer's website.