Sorry, but I need to make a few corrections here. Yes, I do this for a living.

>#1 I'll bet your system isn't fried. You cannot burn up a
>CPU unless the voltage jumpers where physically changed on
>the mb. Though there are viruses that can make your mb think
>your board voltage has changed. They still cannot burn up
>the CPU. They just make it look that way.

Most of this is correct, but you're forgetting jumperless motherboards. Unfortunately, they're all different, and manufacturers don't provide a software API to change them.

>#2 It is impossible to erase a hard drive, it can only be
>written over, and 2 20 gig hds would take about 40 minutes
>of full system resources to overwrite. You would know
>something was up in a heart beat if that was happening. Your
>system would be going crazy for that 40 minutes. Even then
>your hd's would not show empty (like I said before they
>cannot be earsed). They instead would show full of useless
>data bytes. What can happen though is a program or "planted
>bug" that will make your system think it has nothing on the
>hd or report the hd has only having 1 or 2 megs.

Hard drives can be erased. You simply overwrite the drive with all 0's. Yes, it will still take a long time to overwrite 40g's worth.

>#3 Not even disk formatting (the tool in windows that
>"earses" the disk) really earses. What it does is allows the
>used sections of the disk that was storing your information
>to be over-written. You can undo a disk format by inserting
>a windows boot disk and at the A:\ prompt type in UNDO
>FORMAT C:\ This should recover all the information you lost
>on those hd's

This is true, but Windows will not let you format c:\ while it's running. It will let you erase the drive, however.

>#4 Your systems bios uses a falsh rom. You can download a
>new copy from the boards manufacturer and re-flash the bios.
>Before you do that though try clearing the cmos by following
>the manufacturers instructions. You'll have to open the
>system and move the cmos jumper, start the system for 30
>seconds, then move the jumper back. This should get your old
>bios back. If not then do the flash bios. No bios can be
>destoyed, just overwritten.

Not true. You cannot fix a damaged or corrupted BIOS. You're thinking of upgrading the current *working* BIOS. If the current BIOS is hosed, you will not be able to boot the machine to fix it.

>#5 To protect your bios simply install a password for
>editing your bios. A program cannot open or write to your
>bios without knowing the password, and there is no programs
>that can "sniff" out a bios password as it is not a part of
>windows.

Not true, either. You can write-protect your BIOS, which I highly recommend you do, but the password is only for humans.