What I need to know is, if I perform a DBAN can I install Linux? I ask this because I want to basically "start over" on my computer, but don't have the OS install disks on this computer. Bought from Best Buy or something over a year ago, but the vista disks weren't included.
I want to start over, because I downloaded a .rar around a month ago that messed up my computer even though I didn't run the program or anything. The night I downloaded the shit, Norton(ohlol) was being a bitch and said I should delete, so I did. Windows update needed running, so it did it's stuff while I slept. I wake up and turn on my monitor, and see an essentially new computer. Desktop was changed to the one that it's defaulted to, my sidebar had none of my gadgets, no desktop items.
So I go to my documents and look in the Desktop folder, all my items are there. Didn't think to save them, just thought about restoring. So I do that, but and "unexpected error" comes up. Every time I try it, even on later dates. So, I lost a lot of porn vids, my wallpaper collection, and some program files. So I just want to fuck it all, basically.
tl;dr- read the first paragraph.
