How do you remove virus from restore point on USB backup drive?

[Guest tcruise]

A friend has a USB backup drive that has a virus in a restore point.

I guess that he removed the virus from his C drive, but has backed up

infected restore points on his USB backup drive. I know how to remove

restore points with disk cleanup on the C drive, but how can one do it

on his USB (maybe firewire) H:/ backup drive?. If I understand

correctly one cannot boot into safe mode and have USB drives work?

 

T.C.

[Guest Lem]

Re: How do you remove virus from restore point on USB backup drive?

 

tcruise wrote:

> A friend has a USB backup drive that has a virus in a restore point.

> I guess that he removed the virus from his C drive, but has backed up

> infected restore points on his USB backup drive. I know how to remove

> restore points with disk cleanup on the C drive, but how can one do it

> on his USB (maybe firewire) H:/ backup drive?. If I understand

> correctly one cannot boot into safe mode and have USB drives work?

>

> T.C.

 

Because System Restore monitors "only a core set of specified system and

application file types", it's not particularly useful to have it monitor

non-system partitions, such as a removable drive. In any event, if your

friend now configures SR to not monitor that drive, all of the existing

restore points will be deleted.

 

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[Guest Gerry]

Re: How do you remove virus from restore point on USB backup drive?

 

Lem

 

As I interpret what TC is asking you are not answering the question.The

question relates to a backup copy of the system on an external drive,

which contains a virus infected restore point. The question is how do

you remove the infected restore point.

 

One way might be to backup the existing system and then restore the

infected backup. You can then turn off system restore and restart the

computer. Next turn system restore back on and restart the computer. You

can then backup a copy of the system, which will no longer have any

infected restore points. The final task would be to restore the copy of

the system you had before you started the exercise of removing infected

restore points.

 

I think what I have outlined will work. There may be a simpler way.

 

 

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Gerry

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FCA

Stourport, England

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Lem wrote:

> tcruise wrote:

>> A friend has a USB backup drive that has a virus in a restore point.

>> I guess that he removed the virus from his C drive, but has backed up

>> infected restore points on his USB backup drive. I know how to

>> remove restore points with disk cleanup on the C drive, but how can

>> one do it on his USB (maybe firewire) H:/ backup drive?. If I

>> understand correctly one cannot boot into safe mode and have USB

>> drives work? T.C.

>

> Because System Restore monitors "only a core set of specified system

> and application file types", it's not particularly useful to have it

> monitor non-system partitions, such as a removable drive. In any

> event, if your friend now configures SR to not monitor that drive,

> all of the existing restore points will be deleted.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: How do you remove virus from restore point on USB backup drive?

 

> If I understand

> correctly one cannot boot into safe mode and have USB drives work?

>

 

A 1-minute test reveals that USB drives do work in Safe Mode.

[Guest tcruise]

Re: How do you remove virus from restore point on USB backup drive?

 

On Jul 17, 3:09 am, "Gerry" <ge...@nospam.com> wrote:

> Lem

>

> As I interpret what TC is asking you are not answering the question.The

> question relates to a backup copy of the system on an external drive,

> which contains a virus infected restore point. The question is how do

> you remove the infected restore point.

>

> One way might be to backup the existing system and then restore the

> infected backup. You can then turn off system restore and restart the

> computer. Next turn system restore back on and restart the computer. You

> can then backup a copy of the system, which will no longer have any

> infected restore points. The final task would be to restore the copy of

> the system you had before you started the exercise of removing infected

> restore points.

>

> I think what I have outlined will work. There may be a simpler way.

>

> ~~~~

>

> Gerry

> ~~~~

> FCA

> Stourport, England

> Enquire, plan and execute

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>

>

>

>  Lem wrote:

> > tcruise wrote:

> >> A friend has a USB backup drive that has a virus in a restore point.

> >> I guess that he removed the virus from his C drive, but has backed up

> >> infected restore points on his USB backup drive.  I know how to

> >> remove restore points with disk cleanup on the C drive, but how can

> >> one do it on his USB (maybe firewire) H:/ backup drive?.  If I

> >> understand correctly one cannot boot into safe mode and have USB

> >> drives work? T.C.

>

> > Because System Restore monitors "only a core set of specified system

> > and application file types", it's not particularly useful to have it

> > monitor non-system partitions, such as a removable drive.  In any

> > event, if your friend now configures SR to not monitor that drive,

> > all of the existing restore points will be deleted.- Hide quoted text -

>

 

Thank you for responding. After giving it some thought, after

posting: I realized that should the backup of the drive ever have to

be restored, when that is done I could easily get rid of the infected

restore points in normal mode...

 

T.C.