In both cases, as well as a few others, the solution is to boot from something else. You can’t boot into Windows, since you can’t restore it to its prior state while it’s running you can’t overwrite a file while it’s being used.

You want to restore your system to an image backup taken before the malware’s arrival. In fact, your machine won’t even boot because Windows isn’t on that empty hard drive! Since that replacement drive is empty, you don’t have EaseUS Todo installed to process the recovery.

There are two common scenarios that require an emergency disk. Make sure to test your ability to reboot from the emergency disk you create. Choose from creating an ISO file, a USB stick, or a CD/DVD. Run EaseUS Todo, click on the Tools menu, and click on Create Emergency Disk.

You can create it beforehand or when needed. An emergency disk is used to restore a backup image to your system.