Resolved Nightmare week with virus

I am in the middle of changing a network from xp to win7 and have been having printer access problems so disabled a virus checker on one of my xps and was miserably attacked. After taking it to pros twice to no avail (viruses returned) having run avast, security essentials, malwarebites, ad-aware, you name it, I finally reformated the drive. Here's the rub. Right after reformatting the drive, before loading anything, I loaded avast and ran it and there was a trojan which I eliminated and then ran the boot drive version of avast and finally it seems there is a clean computer. Whew! But how the hell did the virus get into the restore. It seems it must have infected the part of the drive that keeps the restore files. So I am about to set up two new win7 74 bit computers. How do I make a clean copy of the restore program. Where is it? I want to make clean copies that are not infected with viruses that can be used if this ever happens again. The computer was literally fending off a virus every 30 seconds with avast protection enabled. Very nervewracking. The only way I survived this nightmare was to work for three hours, then stop and meditate for 40 minutes, and go back to work. I am still afraid it will come back. But so far so good. I now have the great problem of having to put A LOT of outlook express mail folders into Windows Live mail program as win7 doesn't have outlook express anymore. I downloaded 20 pages of instructions. Not looking forward to it. Any help you can give me on making a copy of the restore operating system would be appreciated.

 

Sorry ... I meant a reformat. My brain is still fried. Have you found that the partitioned part of the disk that contains the operating system for a complete reformat can be infected with viruses? That seemed to be the case.

 

Well then, what is the process to format the drive to eliminate the chance of viruses?

 

Oh. okay. But then all the lenovo drivers, etc aren't there, right?

 

Is there a way to copy the brand specific operating system at the time of purchase?

 

I needed a computer because the wrong computer was sent so had to restore the rotten one so we had one working until the other one came. I think the recovery partition was infected. That's what this whole post was about. The minute it was run, it had a virus that had to be wiped off. I had never heard of it either. That's why I wondered if anyone here had heard of it.

 

I was using an xp computer that couldn't be upgraded to win7

 

Thanks. I think I was just venting about my week.