How to scan NTFS drives from a bootable CD.

[Frank Wallace]

Hiren's Boot CD 6 will scan FAT32 and NTFS directly from booting from the CD
rom. It uses either F-Prot or McAffe, whichever is your personal
preference.

Info is here: http://www.thanki.tk/

This is obliously very useful if your computer will not boot due to a virus
infection.

I hope this helps somebody.

All the best,

Frank.

 

[Vanguardx]

Hiren's Boot CD 6 will scan FAT32 and NTFS directly from booting from
the CD rom. It uses either F-Prot or McAffe, whichever is your
personal preference.

Info is here: http://www.thanki.tk/

This is obliously very useful if your computer will not boot due to a
virus infection.

I hope this helps somebody.

All the best,

Frank.

Looks like the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) does
that, too, and the same AV scanners, too ... hmm, I wonder ...

The IANA TLD (top-level domain) of .tk is for Tokelau (which is in New
Zealand). Yet the domain registration for thanki.tk says its
administration is in San Francisco, CA (USA) and the organization is
dot.tk, and which says "Due to restrictions in Dot TK's Privacy
Statement personal information about the user of the domain name cannot
be released." Uh huh. We have a domain registration which its
"controller" says it will not specify the actual domain registrant. Uh
huh. dot.tk's registration notes their organization is in Amsterdam.
Uh huh.

Using an anonymous proxy, I looked at their program list on their boot
CD. PartitionMagic 8.02, Drive Image 2002, Norton Ghost 8.0, Ontrack
Easy Recovery *Pro*, and other commercialware. So what we have here is
a CD full of pirated software! Could it be trialware? Well, Symantec
has no trial version of PartitionMagic or Drive Image (if you think
otherwise then show me a valid link somewhere at symantec.com), and
trialware is usually crippled so you cannot use it to repair your
system.

Yeah, like this is something I'm going trust ... NOT!

 

[xmp]

Using an anonymous proxy, I looked at their program list on their boot
CD. PartitionMagic 8.02, Drive Image 2002, Norton Ghost 8.0, Ontrack
Easy Recovery *Pro*, and other commercialware. So what we have here is
a CD full of pirated software! Could it be trialware?

Are you sure those weren't menu items or plugins? Ultimate Boot CD and
Bart's PE Builder can potentially use commercial software, but it's not
included.

I don't know if Ultimate Boot CD can write to NTFS, that's half the
point of PE Builder. A linux boot disk would be nice with the captive
(NTFS) driver, but there aren't too many free linux scanners.

michael

 

[Tosis]

In the past I've formatted my flash drive and packed it with NTFSPro and the
NOD32 DOS scanner.
Works da bomb in most cases! )

 

[Vanguardx]

Are you sure those weren't menu items or plugins? Ultimate Boot CD
and Bart's PE Builder can potentially use commercial software, but
it's not included.

What I read was a list of contents, not a display of the menu. Why
would a menu item be version specific for a commercial product that
wasn't included?

I don't know if Ultimate Boot CD can write to NTFS, that's half the
point of PE Builder. A linux boot disk would be nice with the captive
(NTFS) driver, but there aren't too many free linux scanners.

michael

Ultimate Boot CD only comes with the freeware read-only NTFSDOS (so you
could only scan but not fix or eradicate infected files). You would
need to buy NTFSDOS *Pro* to get write capability.

 

[Vanguardx]

In the past I've formatted my flash drive and packed it with NTFSPro
and the NOD32 DOS scanner.
Works da bomb in most cases! )

Yeah, I figured a USB drive stick would work better so you could keep it
updated provided the targeted host had USB ports and the problem wasn't
with USB, but then you need to have an OS booted, too, that loaded the
USB drivers. Are there a lot of PCs around that can boot from USB
drives (whether as external hard drives or memory sticks)? My latest
system has an Abit NF7-S v2 motherboard that I got back in this February
and no USB boot devices are listed. So how would you boot from DOS on a
USB stick to get it to load NTFSDOS Pro?

 

[Frank Wallace]

Sorry chaps, it does seem like Hiren's Boot CD is full of pirated software.
It seems to contain NTFS DOS PRO and the virus scanners on it will
definitely disinfect NTFS drives. I didn't realise this when I posted the
message. I should have known though because there is no download link on
Hiren's page. I had to download it from e-donkey.

Probably best not to use it.

All the best,

Frank.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Sorry chaps, it does seem like Hiren's Boot CD is full of pirated software.

Yes, Hiren's Boot CD is a known warez product. Great boot CD but
definitely illegal.

Currently the best way to deal with NTFS-based systems is either
Bart's PE, or the newer Windows Ultimate Boot CD which is now based on
Bart's PE but includes additional freeware utilities.

One thing about both of them is that you can include an Addon
directory that simply contains directories of any software you want.
I usually throw a bunch of other installable utilities in there in
addition to the stuff available from the menu.

 

[Peter Seiler]

Richard Steven Hack - 26.09.2004 07:38 :

Yes, Hiren's Boot CD is a known warez product. Great boot CD but
definitely illegal.

Currently the best way to deal with NTFS-based systems is either
Bart's PE, or the newer Windows Ultimate Boot CD which is now based
on Bart's PE but includes additional freeware utilities.

One thing about both of them is that you can include an Addon
directory that simply contains directories of any software you want.
I usually throw a bunch of other installable utilities in there in
addition to the stuff available from the menu.

how to include the Addon directory with Windows Ultimate Boot CD? I want
to include my antivirus program "BitDefender" and some others.

My system: Windows XP HOME SP1

THX for understandable hints creating such a boot CD this way.