I would be interested in knowing if anyone has had the need to use the Avast Rescue Disk? If so, how the process went.
Any issues implementing or recommendations realized?
Thanks
I had one situation that it may have helped if I had it. I tried all the Windows restore, refresh, recovery options to no avail. I was running W8-RP at the time of the problem. Since I wanted to go back to W7-SP1 before installing W8-RTM I decided to install Ubuntu in the wipe out all Windows mode. Ubuntu installed fine and I played around with it on that computer for a couple of weeks. I was and am still using Ubuntu on my Netbook so I have some basic knowledge in installing and using Ubuntu.
Then after a couple of weeks I did an install of W7 from the re-installation CD with Windows reformatting the entire internal HDD before installing W7. Everything went fine. It just took about a half a day to get Windows 7 installed and updated (150+ updates) and another half a day to get all my apps re-installed. Everything has worked fine since.
I would not recommend anyone use this method if they can't get Windows to boot. However, in extreme cases where nothing else will work this worked fine for me. I don't know if the avast! Rescue disk would have worked. However, since I was going to to a clean install of W7 anyway all is well that ended well.