Re: De-louse NTFS without starting OS

From: Philip Herlihy (foof8500_at_REMOVEherlihy.eu.com)
Date: 09/05/03 

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 21:31:37 +0100

It's possible in XP, and also in Win2K.

However, I think most people (?) would boot in Safe Mode first. Reboot, and
as soon as it starts to load again press F8 every second or so until you get
a menu. Choose Safe Mode, or Safe Mode with Dos Prompt if preferred.
Windows runs in a "minimal" configuration - no networking, etc - but your
AntiVirus will probably run correctly. Be sure to download the latest
definition files - you can usually get these directly from the AV provider's
website and install them via CD or floppy.

There is also a "Recovery Console", which is an even lower level of boot -
available from CD if necessary. Search technet.microsoft.com for article
Q318752.

I notice that my new Norton SystemWorks disk is a bootable CD - that sounds
useful. 

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"Lars" <lars@fake.com> wrote in message
news:37ehlv49ihciee2kdc3es8n1j5qmlr33n2@4ax.com...
>
> Is it possible to boot a machine with W2k to a prompt and
> from there run an antivirus scan of an NTFS partition?
>
> My own computers all have FAT and FAT 32 partitions and with
> those I can boot from a CD and run a Dos version of F-prot.
>
> Now a female friend says she has been infected with some
> virus, despite having F-secure realtime protection, and she
> has seen a message/warning telling her that her hard drive
> is about to be wiped.
> On seeing that warning she phoned her brother who is a
> computer pro and he has advised her not to touch the machine
> until he comes to town, in some three weeks!
>
> Any suggestion appreciated.
>
>
>
> Lars
> Stockholm

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