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 Tool Version License Notes
[ul]
[li]/BIOS[/li]
[li]!BIOS 3.20 Freeware [/li]
[li]BIOS 1.35.0 Freeware Website says V1.35.1, but program displays V1.35.0.[/li]
[li]CMOSPWD 5.0 GPL [/li]
[li]KEYDisk n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]PC CMOS Cleaner 2.0 Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]Q&D Vital Data Manager 1.4g Freeware [/li]
[li]WipeCMOS 1.2 Freeware [/li]
[li]/CPU[/li]
[li]CPUstress 2.5.4 Freeware [/li]
[li]CPUburn 1.4a GPL Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]CPU Burn-in 1.00 Freeware Included in CPUstress. The Linux version which is included in UBCD is at V1.00. V1.01 applies to Windows only.[/li]
[li]CPUinfo n/a GPL Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]Intel Optimized LINPACK Benchmark 11.2.0 Freeware Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]Intel Processor Frequency ID (P3 and below) 7.2 Freeware [/li]
[li]Intel Processor Identification Utility (P4 and above) 5.10 Freeware [/li]
[li]Mersenne Prime Test 23.9.2 Free software Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]Mersenne Prime Test 28.5 Free software Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]Stress 1.04 GPL Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]StressCPU (requires CPU with SSE) 2.0 GPL Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]System Stability Tester 1.5.1 GPL Included in CPUstress.[/li]
[li]x86test 0.10a GPL [/li]
[li]/HDD/Boot Management[/li]
[li]BOOTMGR 05-AUG-2012 Freeware [/li]
[li]Boot Partition 2.60 Freeware [/li]
[li]EditBINI 1.01.1 Freeware [/li]
[li]GAG (Graphical Boot Manager) 4.10 GPL [/li]
[li]Gujin 2.8.7 GPL [/li]
[li]MBRtool 2.3.200 Freeware [/li]
[li]MBRWork 1.08 Freeware [/li]
[li]PLoP Boot Manager 5.0.14 Free for personal use [/li]
[li]Smart BootManager 3.7.1 GPL [/li]
[li]SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03v Freeware [/li]
[li]Super Grub Disk 0.9799 GPL [/li]
[li]Super Grub2 Disk 2.00s2 GPL [/li]
[li]XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3 beta Freeware [/li]
[li]XOSL (Extended Operating System Loader) 1.1.5 GPL [/li]
[li]XOSL-OW (Extended Operating System Loader) 1.1.6 GPL [/li]
[li]/HDD/Data Recovery[/li]
[li]Q&D Unit/Track/Head/Sector 1.3h Freeware [/li]
[li]Offline NT Password & Registry Editor 140201 n/a [/li]
[li]PCLoginNow 2.0 Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]PCRegEdit 1.0 Freeware Included as module in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]PhotoRec 7.0 GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]TestDisk 7.0 GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]/HDD/Device Info and Management[/li]
[li]AMSET (Maxtor) 4.00 Freeware [/li]
[li]ATAINF 1.3 Freeware [/li]
[li]ATA Password Tool 1.1 Freeware [/li]
[li]Change Definition Utility (for Fujitsu M16xx/M2915 HDDs) n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]DiskCheck 4.3.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]DISKINFO 1.02 Freeware [/li]
[li]ESFeat (ExcelStor) 2.30 Freeware [/li]
[li]Feature Tool (IBM/Hitachi) 2.15 Freeware [/li]
[li]GSmartControl 0.8.6 GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]SMARTUDM 2.00 Freeware [/li]
[li]UATA100 (Seagate) 3.06 Freeware [/li]
[li]UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPD/MPE/MPF series HDDs) 1.13 Freeware [/li]
[li]UDMA Utility (for Fujitsu MPG series HDDs) 1.17 Freeware [/li]
[li]Ultra ATA Manager (Western Digital) June, 2003 Freeware [/li]
[li]WDIDLE3 (Western Digital) 1.05 Freeware [/li]
[li]/HDD/Diagnosis[/li]
[li]ATA Diagnostic Tool (Fujitsu) 7.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) 5.25 Freeware [/li]
[li]Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) 5.21 Freeware 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.[/li]
[li]Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (Western Digital) 4.15 Freeware V5.x has been reported not to work on some older machines, so V4.15 has been included as a backup.[/li]
[li]Drive Fitness Test (IBM/Hitachi) 4.16 Freeware [/li]
[li]ES-Tool (Samsung) 3.01v Freeware [/li]
[li]ESTest (ExcelStor) 4.50 Freeware [/li]
[li]GWSCAN (Gateway) 3.15 Freeware For IDE hard drives 10GB or smaller.[/li]
[li]GWSCAN (Gateway) 5.12 Freeware For IDE hard drives larger than 10GB.[/li]
[li]HDAT2 5.0 Freeware Latest stable release, but with device-level testing disabled.[/li]
[li]HUTIL (Samsung) 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."[/li]
[li]HUTIL (Samsung) 2.10 Freeware [/li]
[li]MHDD32 4.5 Freeware Older version included because it supports ATA/SCSI Terminal for scripting, which was removed in the new version.[/li]
[li]MHDD32 4.6 Freeware [/li]
[li]PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.09 Freeware Older version included because this is an uncripppled version that works with non-Maxtor HDDs.[/li]
[li]PowerMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 4.23 Freeware [/li]
[li]SCSIMax (Maxtor/Quantum) 1.21 Freeware [/li]
[li]SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor) 2.23 Freeware [/li]
[li]SeaTools for DOS (Seagate/Maxtor) 1.12 Freeware [/li]
[li]SHDIAG (Samsung) 1.25 Freeware [/li]
[li]TAFT (The ATA Forensics Tool) 1.2 Freeware [/li]
[li]ViVARD 0.4 Freeware The official website is down. Various third party websites claim to have V1.0, but is actually V0.4.[/li]
[li]/HDD/Disk Cloning[/li]
[li]Clonezilla n/a GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]CopyWipe 1.14 Freeware [/li]
[li]EaseUs Disk Copy 2.3.1 Freeware [/li]
[li]g4u 2.5 BSD [/li]
[li]HDClone (Free Edition) 5.1.5 Freeware [/li]
[li]partimage 0.6.9 GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]Partition Saving 4.20 Freeware [/li]
[li]PC INSPECTOR clone-maxx 1.0 Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 769, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website.[/li]
[li]Q&D Unit Clone 1.1p Freeware [/li]
[li]/HDD/Disk Editing[/li]
[li]Disk Editor 3.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]DISKMAN4 4.2A3 Freeware [/li]
[li]DiskSpy Free Edition (Personal use only) 2.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]PTS DiskEditor 1.04 Freeware Excellent information about this tool <a href="http://thestarman.pcministry.com/tool/de/PTS-DE.htm">here</a>.[/li]
[li]/HDD/Disk Wiping[/li]
[li][email protected] KillDisk Free Edition 4.1.2393 Freeware Free Edition. Supports "One Pass Zeros" method only. Note that KillDisk V5.x is Windows only.[/li]
[li]CopyWipe 1.14 Freeware [/li]
[li]Darik's Boot and Nuke 2.2.8 GPL [/li]
[li]Fujitsu Erase Utility 1.00 Freeware [/li]
[li]HDDErase 4.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]HDDErase 3.3 Freeware Older version included because latest version is reportedly not compatible with Intel SSDs.[/li]
[li]HDShredder (Free Edition) 4.0.1 Freeware [/li]
[li]MAXLLF (Maxtor) 1.1 Freeware [/li]
[li]PC Disk Eraser 5.0 Freeware Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]PC INSPECTOR e-maxx 0.95 Freeware Actual version is 0.95 Build 775, but is referred to as 1.0 on product website.[/li]
[li]SUTIL (Samsung) 1.01 Freeware [/li]
[li]/HDD/Installation[/li]
[li]Data Lifeguard Tools (Western Digital) 11.2 Freeware [/li]
[li]DiscWizard 2003 (Seagate) 10.45.06 Freeware [/li]
[li]DiscWizard (Seagate/Maxtor) 11.0.8326 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.[/li]
[li]Disk Manager (IBM) 9.61 Freeware [/li]
[li]Disk Manager (Samsung) 10.42 Freeware [/li]
[li]MaxBlast (Maxtor) 4.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]/HDD/Partition Management[/li]
[li]Cute Partition Manager 0.9.8 Freeware [/li]
[li]Dsrfix 3.12 Freeware [/li]
[li]FIPS 2.0 GPL [/li]
[li]Free FDISK 1.3.1 GPL [/li]
[li]GParted 0.13.1-git GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]Partinfo 1.14 Freeware V1.11 and above are Windows only.[/li]
[li]Partition Explorer 1.01 Freeware [/li]
[li]Partition Resizer 1.3.4 Freeware [/li]
[li]Partition Saving 4.20 Freeware [/li]
[li]PTDD Super Fdisk 1.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]Ranish Partition Manager 2.40 Freeware Using stable version because V2.44 is beta and reported to be buggy.[/li]
[li]SPFDISK (Special FDISK) 2000-03v Freeware [/li]
[li]XFDISK (Extended FDISK) 0.9.3 beta Freeware [/li]
[li]/Memory[/li]
[li]AleGr MEMTEST 2.00 Free for personal use [/li]
[li]DIMM_ID 3.57 UBCD Only This is a special UBCD-only version authorized by the author.[/li]
[li]Memtest86 4.3.7 GPL As of UBCD V5.2.8, V5.0.0 Free Edition extracts to V4.3.7.[/li]
[li]Memtest86+ 5.01 GPL [/li]
[li]TestMemIV n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]Windows Memory Diagnostic 0.4 Freeware [/li]
[li]/Others[/li]
[li]boot.kernel.org (BKO) n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]ClamScan Antivirus 0.97.5 GPL Included in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]FileLink 3.01 Freeware This program is part of Caldera OpenDOS V7.03.[/li]
[li]F-PROT Antivirus 6.2.3 Free for personal use Included as module in Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]Kon-Boot 1.0 Free for personal use [/li]
[li]netboot.me n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]Parted Magic 2013_08_01_i586 GPL Full list of programs can be found here. Parted Magic is now payware and can no longer be updated to the latest version. Warning: Issues relating to this version of Parted Magic.[/li]
[li]UBCD FreeDOS (Based on NwDsk V3.40) R1.52 n/a Based on NwDsk V3.40.[/li]
[li]/Peripherals[/li]
[li]ATAPI CDROM Identification 2.22 Freeware [/li]
[li]CHZ Monitor-Test 2.0 Freeware [/li]
[li]Parallel Port Information System 1.45 Freeware [/li]
[li]Video Memory Stress Test 1.7 GPL [/li]
[li]Enhanced Keyboard Checker n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]AT-Keyboard Tester n/a Freeware [/li]
[li]/System[/li]
[li]AIDA16 2.14 n/a Discontinued[/li]
[li]ASTRA (Demo version) 6.40 14-day Demo [/li]
[li]Hardware Detection Tool 0.5.2 GPL pci.ids.gz: 20/02/2013[/li]
[li]HWiNFO 5.5.5 Freeware [/li]
[li]NSSI 0.60.45 Freeware [/li]
[li]PC-Config 9.33 Freeware Discontinued[/li]
[li]PCI 1.1 Freeware pcidevs.txt: Ver 671 (22-01-2008)[/li]
[li]PCISniffer 1.5 Freeware [/li]
[li]System Speed Test 32 4.78 Freeware [/li]
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