Store your copy of the Norton Bootable Recovery Tool in a safe place. If you encounter an emergency situation, just insert it into your computer and follow the onscreen instructions. The Norton Bootable Recovery Tool will help start your computer in a safe environment and then start cleaning up your infected system, returning your computer to health.

Norton Bootable Recovery Tool is a Rescue tool that is available for free to everyone. You can use this tool in emergency situations to restore your computer to normal working mode. Norton Bootable Recovery Tool (NBRT) can be used to scan and remediate threats should you face difficulty installing Norton products due to a virus infection in your computer. Norton Bootable Recovery Tool can also be used to perform a virus scan in the Windows Preinstallation environment. Given the versatility of this wizard, you can burn the recovery tool to a DVD, create an ISO image, or copy it on to a USB device

Features
Repair infected system files that cannot be removed in Windows environment:
Installation of your Norton security product fails because your system is deeply infected by crimeware. In this event, Norton Bootable Recovery Tool comes to your rescue by letting you boot your computer from a DVD or a USB key and thereby letting you remove the threats that caused the problem.

Repair virus infections that are causing Norton product installation failure:
Norton Bootable Recovery Tool helps you fix your most dreadful computer problems, such as when crimeware embeds itself so deeply into your computer's operating system that it takes a special tool to remove it.

Using Norton Bootable Recovery Tool, you can do the following:
Create customized rescue media (DVD/USB) before your system becomes infected.
Restore your computer to normal working mode when it is infected so deeply that it will not start.

Support for USB key:
Norton Bootable Recovery Wizard lets you create a bootable tool even on a USB device. It also lets you update the virus definitions of Norton Bootable Recovery Tool on the USB key. When you try to install the tool on a USB device, all the information present on it is wiped out. Pre-requisite for using the tool from USB key, is that the boot sequence be set to USB device from the BIOS settings of the computer.

ISO file support to run the tool from a Virtual Machine:
You can create an ISO file as your customized Norton Bootable Recovery Tool. This ISO file can be copied to a DVD and used as a recovery DVD on any computer. With the help of ISO file, you can also point to any virtual machine as a virtual DVD. The tool comes with a default set of network and storage drivers. You can add more drivers by clicking on Add drivers. If you do not want to include more drivers in your customized Norton Bootable Recovery Tool, create the tool using the default settings.