unable to reformat my acer 5315?

Hey everyone i need lots of help! Ive got an acer 5315 windows vista, and ive got a virus on hard disc! I'd ike to reinstall it but the alt + F10 thing doesnt give me the options to do so, ive tried loading it in safe mode but just gets stuck and goes to a blue screen? So now ive decided i want to reformat it but dont know what buttons to press to get options to do that? anyone know what i can do? tricks, tips?
please!
thakyou very much

 

Are you unable to boot into the recovery software? Try checking your bios to make sure d2d recovery is enabled.

If your laptop came with recovery cds, try poping them in and setting the bios to boot from cd and follow the wizard.

There is no combination of keys that will format the drive, to do this you would need a vista install dvd.

 

hey yeah d2d recovery is enabled, and it didnt come with any recovery discs? ive got a vista install dvd but its the same again, gets stuck and blue screen appears?

 

sounds like your HDD is toast. i had a travelmate that did the same thing. replaced the HDD and bingo works. like a charm.

 

What part of boot or install do you get the BSOD? And also what exactly does it say?

Check out this artical for some info on bsods.

It could also be bad ram or the cpu overheating, try pulling 1 stick of ram at a time (presuming you have 2) or swapping all to-gether. Try asking a few friends if they have spare hds & ram and to do some testing.