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Ultimate Boot CD 5.0 RC1/ Ultimate Boot CD 4.1.1

0 2009 11 04 2483 views

Ultimate Boot CD lets you run diagnostics from CD, not from an unwell hard drive or a series of teeny floppies. You can create a boot CD with any of a variety of hard drive diagnostics, hard disk management programs, memory diagnostics, Linux-based rescue discs, and more.
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!
• New! 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.

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

Changes in version 5.0 RC1:
- Updated Grub4Dos v0.4.4 2009-10-16
- Removed /ubcd/boot/grub4dos/grub.exe
- Added /boot/grub/grldr and /boot/grub/menu.lst
- Updated Syslinux v3.83
- Updated MEMDISK (part of Syslinux): fixes booting problems with floppy images on Thinkpads
- Add "raw" parameter to MEMDISK when booting FreeDOS: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1845
- Added MEMDISK-ISO: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2028
- Recompiled econfig.c32 to be compatible with Syslinux 3.83: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1857
- Fixed paths to Parted Magic in hdd\cloning.cfg, hdd\partmgmt.cfg and hdd\recovery.cfg.
- Help text for the Parted Magic menu shows list of included applications (not all of them)
- Updated syslinux config files to new prefered Syslinux syntax (BOOT/COM32/INITRD/LINUX/UI) + menu items alphabetically sorted
- Changed syslinux2grub4dos.sed so it understands the new prefered Syslinux syntax
- Improvements in bash scripts for running syslinux2grub4dos.sh (sorts menu items alphabetically), avira.sh, clamav.sh, fprot.sh.
- Added Win32 batch files for running syslinux2grub4dos.cmd, avira.cmd, clamav.cmd, fprot.cmd.
- Added needed Windows ports of Linux utilies for Win32 batch files
- Added 7-Zip v9.07 beta (xz support needed for Parted Magic modules)
- ubcd2iso.cmd now defaults to creating the ISO image in the root directory when the output path is not supplied. It also displays the full path of the output file upon completion.
- Added DBAN, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor and g4u iso (/ubcd/images/*.iso.gz)
- Removed /ubcd/boot/offline directory
- Removed /ubcd/boot/dban direcotry
- Removed /ubcd/boot/g4u.igz
- Renamed all /ubcd/images/*.igz to /ubcd/images/*.img.gz (floppy images)
- Updated AVIRA AntiVir Rescue System v3.6.9-20091102185524
- Updated Gujin v2.6
- Updated HDDerase v4.0
- Updated memtest86+ v4.0 (new location: /ubcd/boot/memtest86p/memtest86p.bin)
- Updated memtest86 v3.5 (new location: /ubcd/boot/memtest86/memtest86.bin)
- Updated NSSI v0.60.38 (does use the FreeDOS image now, not PC-DOS)
- Updated Parted Magic v4.6 (build: 1 Nov) and F-prot (scanner + definitions), XFprot v2.2 and clamav-definitions
- Updated Partition Saving to v3.71
- Updated Samsung Disk Manager to v10.42
- Updated Samsung ES-Tool v3.00g
- Updated Super Grub Disk v0.9799
- Added Super Grub2 Disk v1.21
- Added Plop v5.0.4
- Added Hardware Detection tool v0.35-pre2
- Added boot.kernel.org (BKO) (/ubcd/boot/bko/gpxe.lkrn)
- Added netboot.me (/ubcd/boot/netbootme/netbootme.lkrn)
- Added Parted Magic modules: PCcmoscleaner, PCdiskEraser, PCloginnow and PCregedit
- Moved directory /ubcd/boot/cpustres/ to /ubcd/boot/cpustress/