REFORMAT GO

Ok, I have a very blatant and very annoying virus. No scanners pick it up, I can't find a firewall tool that finds logs for the virus reporting back to anyone, and it pops up every half hour to 45 minutes as an unnamed, un-icon'ed program in the taskbar for a fraction of a second. However, when it comes up, it focuses the desktop on that program...if I'm playing a game and DirectX does not have control of the display directly (i.e.: menus), it will swap to that viral program. But that's not the case.

I've decided that I will scan all my data twice over and reformat my system hard drive. I've also heard that keeping system images of a pristine installation of XP is a good idea. So...
I think I will move all of my C: data to a secondary HDD and reformat my system drive. Should I make a partition *just* for XP and partition the remainder for actual data? And is there any way I could do an XP reinstall without moving everything? I've heard of such a possible method, but I doubt if I could repartition the drive....so I prithee! CAN I MAKE AN XP AND XP GHOST IMAGE PARTITION WITHOUT HAVING TO MOVE DATA!? (Probably not, so...) What size partition will I need to reinstall XP to? Any websites out there that might describe the process of such a technique?

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Or maybe if people didn't ask retarded questions they wouldn't get retarded answers. AND 99% OF THE QUESTIONS POSTED HERE COULD BE ANSERWED BY ONE FUCKING SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH.
Now stfu and gfto.