Ultimate Boot CD - Overview

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Overview

Current release: 5.3.9

Ultimate Boot CD is completely free for the download, or could be obtained for a small fee. If you had somehow paid a ridiculous amount of money for it, you have most likely been fleeced. The least you could do is to make as many copies of the offical UBCD and pass it to your friends, relatives, colleagues or even complete strangers to minimize the per unit cost of your loss!

Please note that some of the freeware on UBCD explicitly prohibits redistribution for commercial purposes eg. DIMM_ID. If you intend to resell UBCD for commercial gains, please contact the respective authors for their permissions.

If you like trying out new stuff, please check out an early beta version of UBCD Live and give us your feedback. This is a Live Rescue CD based on Debian, which we hope will eventually be good enough to replace Parted Magic.

You need the 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!

Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices. You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version.

New features in UBCD V5.x include:

New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices.

New! UBCD V5.x now supports both syslinux/isolinux and grub4dos. This helps improve the chances that UBCD will boot on any particular machine.

When you boot up from the CD, a text-based menu will be displayed, and you will be able to select the tool you want to run. The selected tool actually boots off a virtual floppy disk created in memory.

Tools currently included with the Ultimate Boot CD are:

Name of ToolVersionLicenseNotes/BIOS!BIOS3.20Freeware BIOS1.35.0Freeware Website says V1.35.1, but program displays V1.35.0. CMOSPWD5.0GPL KEYDiskn/aFreeware PC CMOS Cleaner2.0Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic. QD Vital Data Manager1.4hFreeware WipeCMOS1.2Freeware /CPUCPUstress2.5.4Freeware CPUburn1.4aGPL Included in CPUstress. CPU Burn-in1.00Freeware Included in CPUstress. The Linux version which is included in UBCD is at V1.00. V1.01 applies to Windows only. CPUinfon/aGPL Included in CPUstress. CPUID2.19GPL Intel Optimized LINPACK Benchmark11.2.0Freeware Included in CPUstress. Intel Processor Frequency ID (P3 and below)7.2Freeware Intel Processor Identification Utility (P4 and above)5.30Freeware Mersenne Prime Test23.9.2Free software Included in CPUstress. Mersenne Prime Test28.5Free software Included in CPUstress. Stress1.04GPL Included in CPUstress. StressCPU (requires CPU with SSE)2.0GPL Included in CPUstress. System Stability Tester1.5.1GPL Included in CPUstress. x86test0.10aGPL /HDD/Boot ManagementBOOTMGR05-AUG-2012Freeware Boot Partition2.60Freeware EditBINI1.01.1Freeware GAG (Graphical Boot Manager)4.10GPL Gujin2.8.7GPL MBRtool2.3.200Freeware MBRWork1.08Freeware PLoP Boot Manager5.0.15Free for personal use Smart BootManager3.7.1GPL SPFDISK (Special FDISK)2000-03vFreeware Super Grub Disk0.9799GPL Super Grub2 Disk2.00s8GPL XFDISK (Extended FDISK)0.9.3 betaFreeware XOSL (Extended Operating System Loader)1.1.5GPL XOSL-OW (Extended Operating System Loader)1.1.6GPL /HDD/Data RecoveryQD Unit/Track/Head/Sector1.3jFreeware Offline NT Password Registry Editor140201 n/a PCLoginNow2.0Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic. PCRegEdit1.0Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic. PhotoRec7.1GPL Included in Parted Magic. TestDisk7.1GPL Included in Parted Magic. /HDD/Device Info and ManagementAMSET (Maxtor)4.00Freeware ATAINF1.3Freeware ATA Password Tool1.1Freeware Change Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/M2915 HDDs)n/aFreeware DiskCheck4.3.0Freeware DISKINFO1.02Freeware ESFeat (ExcelStor)2.30Freeware Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi)2.15Freeware GSmartControl0.8.6GPL Included in Parted Magic. SMARTUDM2.00Freeware UATA100 (Seagate)3.06Freeware UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs)1.13Freeware UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs)1.17Freeware Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital)June, 2003Freeware WDIDLE3 (Western Digital)1.05Freeware /HDD/DiagnosisATA Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu)7.0Freeware Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital)5.27Freeware Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital)5.21Freeware Latest V5.22 has the note in version history "Removed missing test tracks check". Since we are uncertain of the impact of this change, older version has been included just in case. Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital)4.15Freeware V5.x has been reported not to work on some older machines, so V4.15 has been included as a backup. Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi)4.16Freeware ES-Tool (Samsung)3.01vFreeware ESTest (ExcelStor)4.50Freeware GWSCAN (Gateway)3.15Freeware For IDE hard drives 10GB or smaller. GWSCAN (Gateway)5.12Freeware For IDE hard drives larger than 10GB. HDAT25.3Freeware Latest stable release, but with device-level testing disabled. HUTIL (Samsung)1.21Freeware From soeren: "HUTIL 2.00 lacks the possibility to view the SMART values and it appears to be a lot slower than 1.21. It's only needed for the newest Samsung drives, the "older" ones still work with 1.21." HUTIL (Samsung)2.10Freeware MHDD324.5Freeware Older version included because it supports ATA/SCSI Terminal for scripting, which was removed in the new version. MHDD324.6Freeware PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum)4.09Freeware Older version included because this is an uncripppled version that works with non-Maxtor HDDs. PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum)4.23Freeware SCSIMax (Maxtor/Quantum)1.21Freeware SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor)2.22Freeware Version included is 2.22 instead of 2.23 at Kaur Kuut's recommendation. Apparently the only feature introduced in V2.23 was "Long Test time out failure for drives that take too long to complete the Long Test", but that prevents large capacity HDDs from completing the long generic test because all modern HDDs time out by default. Seagate subsequently removed this feature in SeaTools for Windows V1.4.0.2, but never did for SeaTools for DOS V2.23. SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor)1.12Freeware SHDIAG (Samsung)1.25Freeware TAFT (The ATA Forensics Tool)1.2Freeware ViVARD0.4Freeware The official website is down. Various third party websites claim to have V1.0, but is actually V0.4. /HDD/Disk CloningClonezillan/aGPL Included in Parted Magic. CopyWipe1.14Freeware EaseUs Disk Copy2.3.1Freeware g4u2.6BSD HDClone (Free Edition)7.0.2Freeware partimage0.6.9GPL Included in Parted Magic. Partition Saving4.30Freeware PC INSPECTOR clone-maxx1.0Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 769, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website. QD Unit Clone1.1rFreeware /HDD/Disk EditingDisk Editor3.0Freeware DISKMAN44.2A3Freeware DiskSpy Free Edition (Personal use only)2.0Freeware PTS DiskEditor1.04Freeware Excellent information about this tool a href="http://thestarman.pcministry.com/tool/de/PTS-DE.htm"here/a. /HDD/Disk WipingActive@ KillDisk Free Edition4.1.2393Freeware Free Edition. Supports "One Pass Zeros" method only. Note that KillDisk V5.x is Windows only. CopyWipe1.14Freeware Darik's Boot and Nuke2.3.0GPL Fujitsu Erase Utility1.00Freeware HDDErase4.0Freeware HDDErase3.3Freeware Older version included because latest version is reportedly not compatible with Intel SSDs. HDShredder (Free Edition)4.0.1Freeware MAXLLF (Maxtor)1.1Freeware PC Disk Eraser5.0Freeware Included in Parted Magic. PC INSPECTOR e-maxx0.95Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 775, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website. SUTIL (Samsung)1.01Freeware /HDD/InstallationData Lifeguard Tools (Western Digital)11.2Freeware DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate)10.45.06Freeware DiscWizard (Seagate/Maxtor)11.0.8326Freeware MaxBlast V5.0 is essentially the same thing i.e. OEM version of Acronis TrueImage. Startup Recovery Manager not included. Didn't see much use for it on the bootable CD, plus it can be activated in the Win32 program itself if required, or you can copy over the "Recovery Manager" folder youself. Disk Manager (IBM)9.61Freeware Disk Manager (Samsung)10.42Freeware MaxBlast (Maxtor)4.0Freeware /HDD/Partition ManagementCute Partition Manager0.9.8Freeware Dsrfix3.12Freeware FIPS2.0GPL Free FDISK1.3.1GPL GParted0.13.1-gitGPL Included in Parted Magic. Partinfo1.14Freeware V1.11 and above are Windows only. Partition Explorer1.01Freeware Partition Resizer1.3.4Freeware Partition Saving4.30Freeware PTDD Super Fdisk1.0Freeware Ranish Partition Manager2.40Freeware Using stable version because V2.44 is beta and reported to be buggy. SPFDISK (Special FDISK)2000-03vFreeware XFDISK (Extended FDISK)0.9.3 betaFreeware /MemoryAleGr MEMTEST2.00Free for personal use DIMM_ID3.57UBCD Only This is a special UBCD-only version authorized by the author. Memtest864.3.7GPL As of UBCD V5.2.8, V5.0.0 Free Edition extracts to V4.3.7. Memtest86+5.01GPL TestMemIVn/aFreeware Windows Memory Diagnostic0.4Freeware /Othersboot.kernel.org (BKO)n/aFreeware ClamScan Antivirus0.97.5GPL Included in Parted Magic. FileLink3.01Freeware This program is part of Caldera OpenDOS V7.03. F-PROT Antivirus6.2.3Free for personal use Included as module in Parted Magic. Kon-Boot1.0Free for personal use netboot.xyzn/aFreeware Parted Magic2013_08_10_i586GPL Full list of programs can be found here. Parted Magic is now payware and can no longer be updated to the latest version. Last free version (2013_08_10) was obtained from this website UBCD FreeDOS (Based on NwDsk V3.40)R1.53 n/a Based on NwDsk V3.40. /PeripheralsATAPI CDROM Identification2.22Freeware CHZ Monitor-Test2.0Freeware Parallel Port Information System1.45Freeware Video Memory Stress Test1.7GPL Enhanced Keyboard Checkern/aFreeware AT-Keyboard Testern/aFreeware /SystemAIDA162.14 n/a Discontinued ASTRA (Demo version)6.5014-day Demo Hardware Detection Tool0.5.2GPL pci.ids.gz: 20/02/2013 HWiNFO5.5.5Freeware NSSI0.60.45Freeware PC-Config9.33Freeware Discontinued PCI1.1Freeware pcidevs.txt: Ver 671 (22-01-2008) PCISniffer3.0.0Freeware System Speed Test 324.78Freeware

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