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Bootable USB flash drive kaspersky rescue disk 10. Creating a bootable flash drive with Kaspersky Rescue Disk

When your computer is infected with viruses to such an extent that the operating system no longer even starts, there is only one way out - SCAN IT WHEN LOADING.

That is, we need to scan it, even before the operating system boots, to find all malicious programs and remove them.

Then reboot our PC and again enjoy its working condition. The fact is that when I first encountered a problem when the computer was infected with a virus and the operating system refused to start, I was simply horrified. Usually, if there is a virus on your computer, you simply find it using an antivirus program and remove it. And then the system did not boot at all. Simply, after turning on the computer, a window appeared asking how to send an SMS as usual, enter a code, and so on. In short another!

DIVORCE FOR MONEY What did I decide to do right away? I immediately came to the conclusion that it was necessary. I did this and was horrified when the virus again prevented the system from starting. How so? What to do if?

REINSTALLING THE SYSTEM DID NOT HELP Salvation can be scanning your computer for viruses

when loading it! It’s great that I remembered about this, but I had never used it before.

We need to burn an image of an antivirus program to a disk or flash drive. Such images can be found on the official websites of antivirus developers such as Kaspersky, Doctor Web, and so on.

In this lesson I will tell you how to take an image of Kaspersky antivirus, write it to a USB flash drive and scan all disks on your computer, removing all viruses. So now we'll start creating.

Bootable USB flash drive with antivirus

For this we need:

1. Formatted USB flash drive.

2. Image of Kaspersky antivirus

3. A program for writing an image to a flash drive.

I hope you already have a flash drive, all you have to do is download the necessary programs.

First, let's look at the program. Double-click on the downloaded file with the left mouse button.

Then in the window that opens, specify the folder to unpack the program, or leave it as default, then it will be unpacked in the same place where it is. Click the "Install" button

After unpacking, the program will automatically start. Click the “Browse” button.

We indicate on the computer where the Kaspersky ISO image is located. After the path to the image is specified, you need, onto which Kaspersky anti-virus will be recorded, and click the “Start” button.

Our flash drive must be formatted for the FAT or FAT32 file system. Therefore, if we previously formatted it in NTFS, a window will appear where we must confirm formatting in FAT32. Click “Yes”.

The recording has started. We are waiting for completion.

After the bootable USB flash drive with the antivirus is created, a window with the text will appear: Kaspersky Rescue Disk was successfully written. Click "OK".

Now we need to prepare the computer for booting fromUSB storage device. You need to go into the BIOS and set it to boot from a flash drive. I'll show you using my BIOS as an example. It may be different for you, but the process will be similar, anyway!

We reboot the computer, do not remove the flash drive with the recorded antivirus from the computer.

When rebooting the PC, we need to go into the BIOS; to do this, press the DELETE or F2 key on the keyboard; it depends on your motherboard.

After entering the BIOS, find the Boot tab, select the item Hard Disk Drivers.

We put USB first.

We save the settings made using the F10 key and exit.

Now our computer boots from a flash drive.

If we did everything correctly, then Kaspersky will launch in a few seconds. Here we are asked to press the “Enter” key. Let's press.

Then, using the arrows on the keyboard, select the language “Russian”.

Accept the terms of the license agreement by pressing the 1 key.

Program interface: Russian

Platform:XP/7/Vista

Manufacturer: Kaspersky Lab

Website: www.kaspersky.ru

Kaspersky Rescue Disk is a boot utility for scanning, disinfecting disks and recovering data after virus attacks. This program has quite broad capabilities and allows you to restore the system even in seemingly the most critical cases, when the system is not even possible to start.

Key features of Kaspersky Rescue Disk

Let's start with the fact that this utility allows you to scan, remove viruses and restore data even in cases where the boot sector of the operating system itself is infected, and does not even get to loading the “OS”.

In order to use this program, you must record it on any removable media, including various types of disks, USB-compatible devices or removable memory cards. When loading the operating system, you need to go to the boot priority settings in the BIOS and select the required device. When launched after a reboot, the program will automatically scan all devices for viruses, Trojans, worms, malicious code or spyware. And this is a huge advantage of the program, since it can work from any media (unlike, say, AVP Tool, which runs under the operating system).

Among the innovations in the tenth release, it is worth noting the ability to disinfect startup objects, the presence of a heuristic analyzer, support for various file systems (NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS), improved work with RAID arrays, the ability to configure Wi-Fi and local networks and much more.

In general, it must be said that the use of this program is based on a very interesting principle. The fact is that viruses only work in operating systems. In this case, the program removes viruses because they are simply inactive. In addition, if this computer is connected to a local network, there is no threat of infection to other computers. Moreover, we must pay tribute to the specialists of Kaspersky Lab, the program removes ABSOLUTELY all viruses and still unknown, but potentially dangerous objects that come under suspicion. The program itself is built on the basis of Gentoo Linux and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. And the system requirements for the normal functioning of this software are quite low by modern standards.

In order to record something Kaspersky Rescue Disk to a flash drive, it is most convenient if you are a registered user of LC products, to use the help of the Wizard to create a system emergency recovery disk. This master is part of both Kaspersky Internet Security, so Kaspersky Antivirus. For all other users who cannot or do not want to use the wizard, the instructions given here will help.

To record an image Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 on the flash drive the sequence of actions is as follows:

1. Insert your flash drive into a free USB port on your computer
The volume requirements for successfully recording a disk image on a flash drive are the presence of free space of 256 MB. The file system on the media must be either FAT16 or FAT32; if any other file system is used, then you must first format the flash drive in FAT16(32). Also, you should not write the image to the boot drive, because... Firstly, this will destroy the existing bootloader, and secondly, it may even end in failure.

    Direct download links from the official server Kaspersky Lab
  • Iso image of Kaspersky Rescue Disk (size about 250 MB)
  • A special utility for transferring the Kaspersky Rescue Disk image to a USB drive (size about 378 KB).
  • This action is optional, but it is advisable to check the correctness of the downloaded image using the MD5 hash

3. Write the resulting Kaspersky Rescue Disk image to your flash drive
The procedure is as follows:

  • Launch the utility rescue2usb.
  • In the utility window that opens, indicate the location of the iso image using the button "Review..."
  • Select the USB drive we need from the drop-down list.
  • All you have to do is press the button "START" and wait until the end of recording to the flash drive.
  • After successful recording to the drive, in the information window you need to click the button "OK".

      • 4. Now let’s prepare the infected computer for booting from USB
      Let's insert our bootable USB flash drive with the recorded Kaspersky Rescue Disk to any free USB port on your computer. Next, to enter the standard BIOS management menu, the key is most often used "Delete" or "F2". In rare cases, other keys or even combinations are used. Here is a list of possible options: "F1"
      "F8"
      "F10"
      "F11"
      "F12"
      "Ctrl+Ins"
      "Ctrl+Esc"
      "Ctrl+Alt"
      "Ctrl+Alt+Esc"
      "Ctrl+Alt+Enter"
      "Ctrl+Alt+Ins"
      "Ctrl+Alt+Del"
      "Ctrl+Alt+S"       For your motherboard, you can see how to enter the BIOS management menu immediately when you turn on the system unit in the lower left corner of the monitor screen: If you entered the BIOS management menu, then find the tab responsible for the sequence of selecting devices to boot (usually something like "Boot priority") and install your flash drive first. Or, if you find yourself in the so-called "Boot selection menu", just use the arrows to select your flash drive and click "Enter". You can read detailed information about boot parameters in the “User Manual” for your motherboard.

When the virus situation on your computer gets out of control and conventional antivirus programs can’t cope (or they simply don’t exist), a flash drive with Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10 (KRD) can help.

This program effectively disinfects an infected computer, allows you to update databases, roll back updates and view statistics. But first you need to correctly write it to a flash drive. Let's look at this whole process step by step.

Why a flash drive? To use it, you do not need a disk drive, which is already missing on many modern devices (laptops, tablets), and it is resistant to repeated overwriting. In addition, removable storage media is much less susceptible to damage.

In addition to the program itself in ISO format, you will need a utility to record to the media. It is better to use Kaspersky USB Rescue Disk Maker, which is designed specifically to work with this rescue tool. Everything can be downloaded from the official website of Kaspersky Lab.

By the way, using other recording utilities does not always lead to a positive result.

Step 1: Preparing the Flash Drive

This step involves formatting the drive and specifying the FAT32 file system. If the drive will be used to store files, then you need to leave at least 256 MB for KRD. To do this, do this:



The first stage of recording is completed.

Step 2: Write the image to a USB flash drive

Now you need to configure the BIOS correctly.

Step 3: BIOS Setup

All that remains is to tell the BIOS that you need to load the flash drive first. To do this, do this:


This sequence of actions is shown using the AMI BIOS as an example. In other versions everything is basically the same. You can read more about setting up the BIOS in our instructions on this topic.

Step 4: Initial launch of KRD

All that remains is to prepare the program for work.


Having a kind of “ambulance” on a flash drive will never be superfluous, but to avoid emergency situations, be sure to use an anti-virus program with updated databases.

For more information about protecting removable storage from malware, read our article.

One such solution is Kaspersky Rescue Disk, which allows you to create a disaster recovery disk based on the Gentoo operating system.

This is a standard feature of any antivirus software for a computer, but Kaspersky Rescue Disk scans without involving the main operating system. To do this, it uses the Gentoo OS built into it.

Booting your computer from CD/DVD and USB media

The program allows you to turn on your computer using a disk or flash drive with it, which is especially useful and necessary in cases where the operating system is blocked by malware. Such a launch is possible precisely thanks to the OS integrated into this utility.

Graphic and text modes

When starting the program, you must make a choice in which mode to boot. If you select graphical, it will be similar to a regular operating system - Rescue Disk will be managed using a graphical shell. If you start in text mode, then you will not see any graphical shell, and you will have to manage Kaspersky Rescue Disk through dialog boxes.

Equipment information

This function collects all information about the components of your computer and stores it electronically. Why is this needed? Let's say you were unable to load the program in any of the modes, then you should save this data on a flash drive and send it to technical support.

Assistance is provided exclusively to purchasers of a commercial license for such types of products as or.

Flexible scanning settings

Another interesting feature is configuring various scanning parameters of Kaspersky Rescue Disc. You can change the settings for updating and scanning an object for viruses. The application also has additional parameters, among which are the categories of detected threats, the ability to add exceptions, notification settings, and so on.

Advantages

  • Scanning without affecting the infected OS;
  • Many useful settings;
  • Ability to burn Rescue Disk to USB drive or disk;
  • Several modes of use;
  • Russian language support.

Flaws

  • Help related to the operation of the program can only be obtained by holders of a commercial license for Kaspersky Anti-Virus or Kaspersky Internet Security

The antivirus solution we reviewed is one of the best in the fight against malware. Thanks to the right approach from developers, it is possible to eliminate all threats without loading the main OS and preventing viruses from doing anything.