installation of windows 7 in blank hard drive

I had a virus on my pc which has deleted everything and now the pc does not start. im going to buy a new hard drive but I need to know if I can install windows 7 on the new? or do intall recovery disks all hard drive is empty?

If you have recovery discs you can do. Put in disc one and pull upwards.

the old drive should still be physically ok. So you can just try pick up on this disc. When you run the recovery DVD, it erases the disk and should be fine. May be worth a try before you go out and buy a new hard drive.

Good luck

Bill

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