» Viruses and Malware It's hard to run an anti-virus scan if you can't boot from the hard drive. To run an anti-virus or other scan, you'll need to take some special steps to boot from something else. Feb 3, 2018 - Learn how to schedule a boot-time (startup) scan in Avast Antivirus 2019 and test Windows 7, 8 or 10 before they are launched. Detailed steps.
No, its just we cannot run our utilities because the rogues are built to block every install and.exe file there is a trick that i picked up in dealing with rogues. If you go into safe mode and go into the msconfig startup options alot of times you will find entries for the rogue software and you can just turn it off (sometimes.) or if you can play a little where's waldo you can look in the main user acct. In the app data folder, program data or the program files folders and just delete any entries you know don't belong. If any of this has been successful then you should be able to run anything you want (.exe or otherwise) in regular windows to finish the repair. With a business.would not touch hirens boot cd. Might be a great tool, but it's said a lot of the programs included are paid programs. If you download them with that cd for free.Seems like a liability if you get audited.
Check out ultimate boot cd for windows. It allows you to use an XP cd to build a bootable cd that will boot you into a mini windows xp environment. Should at least allow you to do some file copying and all that. Also check into a nice set of adapters, which should allow you to hook any drive to your pc, then you can scan from there as well.