PC virus/Hdd data needs recovering.. help please

[phinch1]

dobby985 said:

phinch1 said:

IllegalPaladin said:

It'd still be there so I'd be careful. Personally, I wouldn't want to bother with trying to remove a virus that's hard to remove and wreaking havok so I'd just back up what I need and reformat the hard drive. Regardless of what you choose to do, I'd make sure that before you access whatever it was that you backed up, scan the flash drive (or whatever) that you copies the files to with an updated anti-virus first.

If you want to play it safe you can download the latest version of Ubuntu, burn it to a disk, and boot to the disk and run the live CD. It'll load Ubuntu without installing it and you'll be able to access your hard drives and grab any files you need to backup and copy them over to a flash drive or something.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

nah Im not going to remove it as its caused no problems since, its like i just need to nip back and grab that video and get the hell out of there, can i run ubuntu of a mem stick?

Yes. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-ubuntu-rescue-remix-to-a-flash-drive/

what was the yes too? if i download this can i check my other files on the HDD

EDIT never mind, so i can run it off a mem stick :) im just worried that it will bring back the virus, or will this just let me browse what was on there?