A customers system is infected with hundreds of viruses, including spyware and malware. The customer has critical data on the system that needs to be recovered within 30 minutes. Which of the following is the BEST course of action the technician should take?

A. Add a drive to the system and copy the systems contents of the hard drive to second hard drive.
B. Reformat the hard drive and recover the data from a recent backup.
C. Remove the hard drive and copy the critical data to another system using an external dock.
D. Update the anti-virus program and virus definitions and run a complete virus scan and automated virus removal.

Answer: C. Remove the hard drive and copy the critical data to another system using an external dock.

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