Win XP problem

[Charlie Pappert]

I am running xp on my laptop and I got a worm that spontaniously shuts off the computer.  I thought reinstalling windows would get rid of it but now I can't get windows to install completely before it turns itself off.  I need a way to clear my hard drive without having windows xp installed.

[merlin]

if you had this laptop connected to the net it sounds like the m$blaster worm?more info here>http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp