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All valid strategies. How bout a new drive? internal terabyte drives are so cheap these days. New OS install.. problem solved. I've found that usually I can re-add the offending drive as an additional internal storage device and grab whatever files I need with no problems as long as I have the virus program installed and have Hi-Jack-this handy. Usually never have to use those programs though...
If the virus is something that gets loaded in start-up then having the new drive but keeping your old drive as a back up works because it's not called into memory until after the base OS load process (MAC or PC). That is at least what I have discovered in my travels in my time from DOS 1.0 to DOS 6.0 to Windows 98 to XP.... and with our g4 and G5's in our office I still havent messed around with Vista much.
I've always been able to recover data from an old drive that way without having to re-format and loosing everything. Then I reformat the bad drive and move the data that I need back there.
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