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 V5.0 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 V5.0 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 Tool Version License Notes
BIOS
!BIOS 3.20 Freeware
BIOS 1.35.0 Freeware Website says V1.35.1, but program displays V1.35.0.
CMOSPWD 5.0 GPL
KEYDisk n/a GPL
WipeCMOS 1.2 Freeware
CPU
CPU Burn-in 1.00 Freeware The Linux version which is included in UBCD is
at V1.00. V1.01 applies to Windows only.
CPUinfo n/a GPL
Intel Processor Frequency ID 7.2.20041115 Freeware
Intel Processor Identification Utility 4.22.20100302 Freeware
Mersenne Prime Test 24.14 Public domain
Stress 1.00 GPL
StressCPU 2.0 Freeware
x86test 0.10a GPL
Boot Management
Boot Partition 2.60 Freeware
boot.kernel.org (BKO) n/a Freeware
EditBINI 1.01.1 Freeware
GAG (Graphical Boot Manager) 4.10 GPL
Gujin 2.8.1 GPL
MBRtool 2.3.100 Freeware
MBRWork 1.07b Freeware
netboot.me n/a Freeware
PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.10 Freeware
Smart BootManager 3.7.1 GPL
SPFDISK 2000-03t Freeware
Super Grub Disk 0.9799 GPL
Super Grub2 Disk 1.30 GPL
XFDISK 0.9.3 beta Freeware
XOSL (Extended Operating System Loader) 1.1.5 GPL
Data Recovery
Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 080802 n/a
PhotoRec 6.12-WIP GPL Included in Parted Magic.
TestDisk 6.12-WIP GPL Included in Parted Magic.
Hard Disk Information & Management
AMSET 4.00 Freeware
ATA Password Tool 1.1 Freeware
ATAINF 1.3 Freeware
Change Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/M2915 HDDs) n/a Freeware
DiskCheck 3.8 Freeware
DISKINFO 1.02 Freeware
ESFeat 2.30 Freeware
Feature Tool 2.15 Freeware
SMARTUDM 2.00 Freeware
UATA100 3.06 Freeware
UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs) n/a Freeware
UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs) n/a Freeware
Ultra ATA Manager June, 2003 Freeware
Hard Disk Diagnosis
ATA Diagnostic Tool 7.0 Freeware
DLG Diagnostic 4.15 Freeware V5.x has been reported not to work on some
older machines, so V4.15 has been included as a backup.
DLG Diagnostic 5.04f Freeware
Drive Fitness Test 4.16 Freeware
ES-Tool 3.00g Freeware
ESTest 4.50 Freeware
GWSCAN 3.15 Freeware For IDE hard drives 10GB or smaller.
GWSCAN 5.12 Freeware For IDE hard drives larger than 10GB.
HDAT2 4.7.1 Freeware
HUTIL 1.21 Freeware 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 2.10 Freeware
MHDD32 4.5 Freeware
MHDD32 4.6 Freeware
PowerMax 4.09 Freeware
PowerMax 4.23 Freeware
SCSIMax 1.21 Freeware
SeaTools for DOS 2.20 Freeware
SeaTools for DOS 1.10 Freeware
SHDIAG 1.25 Freeware
ViVARD 0.4 Freeware
Hard Disk Cloning
CopyWipe 1.14 Freeware
EaseUs Disk Copy 2.3 Freeware
g4u 2.4 BSD
HDClone 3.9.2 Freeware
partimage 0.6.8 beta 1 GPL Included in Parted Magic.
Partition Saving 3.80 Freeware
PC INSPECTOR clone-maxx 1.0 Freeware
Hard Disk Low-Level Editing
Disk Editor 3.0 Freeware
DISKMAN4 4.01 Freeware
DiskSpy Free Edition 2.0 Freeware
PTS DiskEditor 1.04 Freeware
Hard Disk Wiping
Active@ KillDisk Free Edition 4.1.2393 Freeware Free Edition. Supports
"One Pass Zeros" method only. Note that KillDisk V5.x is Windows only.
CopyWipe 1.14 Freeware
Darik's Boot and Nuke beta.2007042900 GPL
Fujitsu Erase Utility n/a Freeware
HDDErase 4.0 Freeware
MAXLLF 1.1 Freeware
PC INSPECTOR e-maxx 0.95 Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 775, but
is referred to as 1.0 on product website.
SUTIL 1.01 Freeware
Hard Disk Installation
Data Lifeguard Tools 11.2 Freeware
DiscWizard 2003 10.45.06 Freeware
DiscWizard 10.0.5077 Freeware 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 10.42 Freeware
MaxBlast 4.0 Freeware
Partition Management
Cute Partition Manager 0.9.8 Freeware
FIPS 2.0 GPL
Free FDISK 1.3.1 GPL
GParted 0.5.2 GPL Included in Parted Magic.
Partition Resizer 1.3.4 Freeware
Partition Saving 3.80 Freeware
PTDD Super Fdisk 1.0 Freeware
Ranish Partition Manager 2.40 Freeware Using stable version because
V2.44 is beta and reported to be buggy.
SPFDISK 2000-03t Freeware
XFDISK 0.9.3 beta Freeware
Memory
Memtest86 3.5 GPL
Memtest86+ 4.10 GPL
TestMemIV n/a Freeware
Windows Memory Diagnostic n/a Freeware
Others
AVIRA AntiVir Rescue System 3.6.9-20100512182845 Freeware
FileLink 3.01 Freeware This program is part of Caldera OpenDOS V7.03.
Parted Magic 4.10 GPL Full list of programs can be found here
UBCD FreeDOS R1.38 n/a Based on NwDsk V3.40.
Peripherals
ATAPI CDROM Identification 2.22 Freeware
CD Index 1.1 Freeware
CHZ Monitor-Test 2.0 Freeware
Parallel Port Information System 1.45 Freeware
System
AIDA16 2.14 n/a Discontinued
ASTRA 5.45 14-day Demo
Hardware Detection Tool 0.3.6 GPL
NSSI 0.60.38 Freeware
PC-Config 9.33 Freeware Discontinued
PCI 1.1 Freeware pcidevs.txt: 22-01-2008
PCISniffer 1.5 Freeware
System Speed Test 32 4.78 Freeware
