Overview

For those of you interested in a Windows version of the Ultimate Boot CD, you might want to check out this project initiated by Ben Burrows.

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!

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 in the Ultimate Boot CD are:

Ultimate Boot CD (Basic)

The basic version contains updated versions of all tools found in previous releases and even adds a few more. This version does not contain the Linux boot environment INSERT.

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)	4.00
PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum)	4.09
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital)	4.15
DLG Diagnostic (Western Digital)	5.04c
Data Lifeguard (Western Digital)	11.0
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate)	1.06.02
SeaTools Desktop (Seagate)	3.00.07en
Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu)	6.20
SHDIAG (Samsung)	1.25
HUTIL (Samsung)	1.19
GWSCAN (Gateway)	3.15
GWSCAN (Gateway)	5.09
Salvation HDD Scan and Repair	3.0
Hard Disk Device Management
Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi)	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
ATAINF	1.3
Hard Disk Wiping
AutoClave	0.3
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition	3.1
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
XXCOPY	2.85.5
Hard Disk Sector Editor
Disk Editor	3.0
DISKMAN4	4.01
PTS DiskEditor	1.04
Partition Tools
Ranish Partition Manager	2.44
XFDISK (Extended FDISK)	0.9.3beta
SPFDISK (Special FDISK)	2000-03q
TestDisk	5.5
Partition Resizer	1.3.4
Partition Saving	2.91
Free FDISK	1.3.0
MBRtool	2.2.100
MBRWork	1.07b
FIPS	2.0
Active@ Partition Recovery	2.1.1
Boot Managers
Smart BootManager	3.7R1
Gujin	0.9
GAG	4.5d
File Managers
DOS Navigator	3.7.0
File Maven	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 t rick .	040818
Active NTFS Reader for DOS	1.0.1
EditBINI	1.01.1
Boot Partition	2.50
System Burn-In Test
Lucifer	1.0
CPU Test
CPU Burn-in	1.00
Mersenne Prime Test	23.5.2
Memory Test
Memtest86	3.2
Memtest86+	1.40
Windows Memory Diagnostic	n/a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic	1.45a
DocMem RAM Diagnostic	2.1b
TestMem4	4
ctramtest	5.1
Peripherals Test
Parallel port detection and test utilities	1.45
ATAPI CDROM Identification	2.03
CPU Information
Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility	7.2.20041115
System Information
AIDA16	2.14
NSSI	0.58.3
PC-Config	9.33
ASTRA	4.21
PCISniffer	1.3
PCI	0.49B
CTIA	2.1
Benchmark Applications
System Speed Test 32	4.78
3D Benchmark VGA	1.0
CPU Benchmark	n/a
CD Index	1.1
BIOS Utilities
BIOS	1.34.0
UniFlash	1.37
WipeCMOS	1.2
CMOSPWD	4.4
!BIOS	3.20
DOS Boot Disks
FreeDOS Boot Disk	n/a
NwDsk: NetWare Boot Disk	3.18
Madboot Floppy	8.0
MSRRC: Bart's Network Boot Disk on FreeDOS	3.18
Antivirus Tools
F-Prot Antivirus for DOS (Personal use only) Virus definition: 30 Nov 2004	3.15b
McAfee Antivirus Scanner Virus definition: 1 Dec 2004	4.32.0
Network Tools
Freesco	0.3.2
Arachne WWW Browser	1.77
QNX Demo Browser (network and modem version)	4.00
NetCopy	0.2
DOSRDP	2.0/XP
Disk Image Tools
Disk Image Writer Original work by Adrian Stanciu. Writes disk images on UBCD to physical floppy disks.	n/a

Ultimate Boot CD (Full)

The full version contains all the tools found in the basic version but also adds the INSERT environment, a Linux distribution based on Knoppix. INSERT contains many utilities for the Linux user, such as the ability to mount most filesystems (including NTFS(rw) via Captive), ssh and sshfs which allows you to mount a filesystem over ssh, Samba client and server, IDS and testing tools such as Nessus and Snort, Rdesktop to remote control Windows servers, VNC, Qtparted for re-partitioning, iptables, and Monkey webserver are just a few of the tools found on the UBCD version of INSERT. In addition, UBCD Insert also supports modules which can be found at SourceForge that contain several more tools.

Please see UBCD Insert documentation before burning this ISO since it contains information on modules and customization you may find useful.

Customized for UBCD by Charles Appel. Full Linux distribution for system recovery.

Additional tools found at Sourceforge	Version
Modules for UBCD Insert
Firebird-0.8 - Now called Firefox	0.8
Nettools-1.0 (contains Snort 2.2.0 , Ethereal 0.10.6 , Firewall Builder 2.0.1 )	1.0
Linux Boot Disks
Tom's Boot Disk	2.0.103
Recovery Is Possible (RIP)	3.1
BasicLinux	3.2
Trinux	0.89

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