Repartitioning to remove a virus

Hi,
I have a virus on an external hard drive of mine. Someone on the malware forum has been helping me out in trying to get rid of it and he thinks that the best solution is for me to repartition the drive to remove the virus. However I don't know how to do this. I've downloaded and setup Gparted and am ready to use it, so if anyone can help me through the steps of repartitioning that would be appreciated!
Thanks

 

I think it would help if you would post the specific instructions that you were given by the malware team.

 

Sure, these were the instructions:

"That also did not work. About the only way to remove the infection is to repartition the drive. So save your data to another drive and use one of these tools to repartition the drive:

diskpart.exe - from the Windows Recovery Console
Examples of using Windows diskpart.exe >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415

GParted - http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php - MGs link: GParted Live

Parted Magic - http://partedmagic.com/doku.php

Partition Logic -http://partitionlogic.org.uk/

Cute Partition Manage - http://www.cutepm.com/"

Here is a link to the thread: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1657289&posted=1#post1657289

 

I believe Tim meant that you format the drive with the makers utility, bring it back to factory condition and start fresh with making new partitions but I can't be certain. His mind is unfathomable.:-D

 

Hello,
Have you taken all of your data off of the drive? If so,

Use this utility which needs to run from an admin account. Do a low-level format of the drive which will take a couple of hours. Then post back here and we will partition and format the drive.

Note: make very sure you are doing this to your external and not your internal drive as this will wipe the drive back to a factory state.

 

Hello,

I'm not that computer literate so I'll just admit that upfront. :confused
Ok tgell I've formatted the drive now. What do I need to do next?

 

We can do this inside of windows if you wish. Connect the external hard drive and boot the computer. Now go into Disk Management by right clicking computer>manage>Disk Management

You should see your external hard drive as not initialized. Right click the drive in disk management and select initialize if windows does not ask to initialize the drive. After it is initialized right click and select new volume or partition and format to NTFS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEyvdhZemSg

 

Sorry for the delay.
Ok I've done that now as a simple volume.

 

If you have completed the steps in the video and formatted to NTFS it should show up in Computer and allow you to save files to it. Does it show as a drive letter in Computer?

 

Yeah it does.
Does this mean I'm finished now?

 

If you can save files to it and copy back then you are done.

Good work!