Virus , bad hard drive or both

Virus, bad hard drive or both
I am sure I have a virus on my computer all my searches with Google, yahoo and Microsoft live
Give the correct search results but when I click on the link I am taken to the wrong websites
mostly other spam sites. I ran AVG pro with no results.
I even tried formatting the hard drive and installing a clean copy of XP. The XP setup runs fine until I get to the part where I press F8. It than takes me to the screen with the list of hard drives that I can install XP on. I only have 1 hard drive in the computer and the XP setup tells me that it “cannot access the drive” So I can’t even format the drive and install XP.
I did a disk error-check in windows and it found nothing.
Any advice would be great, Thanks!

Google "kill mbr" and get a DOS app that will erase the master boot record on the drive.

Format and try the install again.

Thanks
Any Suggestions for a DOS app

If you can "obtain" a Hiren boot disk there are a few on it ;)

I use a "tech boot" disk that one of my co-workers used to make for us.

A quick google search pops up something called "Active Kill Disk" that looks like it should work.

Thanks

Good luck.

Let us know what happens

I will, looks like it could be a long night

never mind, seems like it undercontrol