Ultimate Boot CD

[sanereddy]

For those who don\'t have a floppy drive on their system (seems like more and more systems are no longer coming with a floppy) you occasionally find that you need to boot from your floppy. Here\'s an alternative.

Ultimate Boot CD

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

Use Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

- Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

- Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive. Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive.

- Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD. Wouldn\'t you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you!


Tools currently included in the Ultimate Boot CD are:

Name of Tool Version
Hard Disk Installation
MaxBlast 3 (Maxtor) 3.6
DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate) 10.45.06
Disk Manager (Seagate) 9.56a
Disk Manager (Samsung) 10
Hard Disk Diagnosis
Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 3.73
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital) 5.04c
Data Lifeguard (Western Digital) 11.0
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) 1.06.02
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate) V3.00.06en
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 6.20
SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25
HUTIL (Samsung) 1.19
Hard Disk Device Management
IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool 1.94
AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00
MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1
UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06
Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003
SMARTUDM 2.00
ATA Password Tool 1.1
Hard Disk Wiping
AutoClave 0.3
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition 3.0
Darik\'s Boot and Nuke 1.0.3
PC INSPECTOR e-maxx 0.95 Build 775
Hard Disk Cloning
HDClone (Free Edition) 2.0
g4u 1.17
PC INSPECTOR clone maxx 0.95 Build 769
Partition Tools
Ranish Partition Manager 2.44
XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3beta
SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03q
TestDisk 5.3
Partition Resizer
1.3.4
Partition Saving 2.90
Free FDISK 1.2.1
MBRtool 2.2.100
MBRWork 1.07b
FIPS 2.0
GAG 4.3
Active@ Partition Recovery 2.1.1
Disk Editor 3.0
Boot Managers
Smart BootManager 3.7R1
Gujin 0.8
File Managers
DOS Navigator

Includes read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS.
3.7.0
File Maven

Includes read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS.
3.5a
NTFS Tools
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor
Note: The SCSI drivers are available on the CD in scsi/. Selecting \"[a] autoprobe for the driver\" on startup should do the trick. 040116
Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.1
EditBINI 1.01.1
CPU/Memory Diagnosis
CPU Burn-in 1.00
Memtest86 3.1a
Memtest86+ 1.20
Windows Memory Diagnostic n/a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 1.45a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic 2.1b
Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility 7.1.20040716
Lucifer 1.0
DOS Boot Disks
Bart\'s Network Boot Disk n/a
Bart\'s CDROM Boot Disk n/a
FreeDOS Boot Disk n/a
Linux-based Rescue Disks
Tom\'s Boot Disk 2.0.103
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) 3.0
BasicLinux
Note: I know BasicLinux V3.x has been released, but I can\'t get a single floppy version of it. If any of you has the single floppy image (not the double floppy one), please contact me. Thanks! 2.1
Trinux 0.89
System Information
AIDA16 2.14
NSSI 0.58.1
PC-Config 9.33
ASTRA 4.21
PCISniffer 1.2
Benchmarks
System Speed Test 32 4.78
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only)

Virus definition: 27 July 2004
Includes read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS.
3.15
McAfee Antivirus Scanner

Virus definition: 27 July 2004
Includes read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS.
4.32.0
Network Tools
Freesco
Note: First you need to create a configuration floppy disk based on freesco/freesco.zip on the CD. Please refer to docs/freesco/fscodisk.txt on the CD for more information. 0.3.2
Arachne WWW Browser 1.75
QNX Demo Browser (network and modem version) 4.00
Miscellaneous
Disk Image Writer
Original work by Adrian Stanciu. Writes disk images on UBCD to physical floppy disks. n/a
DOS Utilities
Note: These utilities are located on the CD in the DOSAPPS subdirectory. Use one of the DOS boot disks with CDROM access to run them directly from the CD.

3DBENCH - Tool for testing older VGA cards on their 3D features
BIOS - BIOS password finder, BIOS information display etc.
CDBENCH - CDROM drive benchmark tool
CDCAP - ATA/SCSI drives features display tool
CDIDENTI - CD media information tool
CTCACHE - Displays some cache/DRAM configs of mainboard chipsets
CTRAM - RAM check utility
LFNTOOLS (V1.79) - Tools for working with long filenames
DISKMAN4 (V4.0) - Performs a variety of low level hard disk related tasks
BOOTPART (V2.5) - Add additional partitions to the Windows NT multi boot menu
PARALLEL (V1.45) - Parallel port detection and test utilities
UNIFLASH (V1.37) - Utility, that can flash BIOS on many boards
WIPECMOS (V1.2) - Clears all CMOS settings to recover from lost passwords
CPUBENCH - CPU benchmark program
PCI (V0.49B) - PCI system information and exploration tool
CMOSPWD (V4.3) - CMOS password recovery tool

[Adara]

Thanks for sharing the very useful information. It will be very helpful for us.

[SeanL]

Ultimate boot CD is absolutely awesome. It works across all Windows platforms, inc Win7