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Old March 13th, 2009, 03:58 PM
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A virus will not reside on the motherboard. It sounds like this is just bad hardware, possibly a buggy driver? Ubuntu loaded with no issue because it uses completely different drivers than Windows uses.

If you use a dual-boot system, Ubuntu won't be "controlling" the motherboard. The only time Ubuntu will have an effect on the system is when it is booted. When you have Windows booted, you will still have issues you had previously. Your time would be better spent trying to find the driver that is causing your problem.

When you say the virus "completely destroyed the computer" running Windows, what do you mean? Did the computer display a blue screen with an error message? Was the screen black with white text displaying "Operating system not found?" We need more details to help you.

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My problem I can't find a fat32 or ntfs format comand for an external HD in Ubuntu.
Does any-one know the where and how-to do this format please.
In Ubuntu, you can install a program called "gparted" by opening up a terminal window and typing "sudo apt-get install gparted."

gparted is a graphical partition editor that will allow you to format the drive as fat32 or ntfs.
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