Version History

Jan 25, 2005

3.2

• Fixed menu bug in bootdsk.scn. Thanks to Tim Wegner for reporting this.
• Fixed WipeCMOS false virus alert. Thanks to JJJ for reporting this.
• Fixed startup.bat bug for Partition Resizer. Thanks to David Morse for reporting this.
• Fixed offline documentation bug for INSERT. Thanks to Charles Appel for helping with this.
• Updated F-Prot to V3.16a. Thanks to various people who notified me about this. The virus signatures has also been updated to 16 Jan 2005.
• Added Added Avast! V7.7 for DOS. Thanks to Stefano for the suggestion.
• Added AntiVir Personal Edition V6.29.0.5. Thanks to Stefano for the suggestion.
• Updated UniFlash to V1.38. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated NwDsk boot disk to V3.22. Thanks to Erwin for the update.

• Updated FreeDOS boot disk to V3.22. Thanks to Erwin for the update.

  USB detection now defaults to no to avoid locking up incompatible machines. There is now an UBCD.BAT in A:\Bin that holds the batch-file for UBCD handling. The displayed text is in UBCD.TXT in A:\Etc. This way it is now possible for the end-user to re-enter the menu by running UBCD from the prompt.

• Updated MSRRC boot disk to V3.22. Thanks to Erwin for the update.

  Fdmsrrc now contains the freeware Client version of Remote Recover. Just install the freeware (limited to read-only) or buyware Server version and you are able to mount remote drives (FAT/FAT32/NTFS) with Remote Recover (RRC). Next to that you will still be able to use this image to connect to Microsoft Shares or to create Microsoft Shares to be accessed from other machines. It carries 30 drivers now. Whatever you choose in the MsNet-dialog, you can always lauch RRC additionally (just type "rrc").

• Updated Arachne to V1.79. Thanks to Erwin for the update.
• Updated DBAN to V1.04. Thanks to Stefano for the update.
• Updated Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to 041205. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated NSSI to V0.58.6. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated DOS Navigator to V4.9.0. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated BIOS to V1.35.1. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated ATAINF to V1.3m. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.

• Added MHDD32 V4.0. Thanks to Jordan Plamen for the update.

  Note: To use this program, you need to read the last paragraph in MHDD_EN.rtf in the docs directory to figure out how to compute the activation code. The program is free though. The intention of the activation code is to "encourage" users to read the documentation first. :-)

• Updated XXCOPY to V2.85.9. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated PCI's pcidevs.txt to 21-Nov-2004 edition. Thanks to Jambin for the update.
• Added Ontrack Data Advisor V5.0 Free Edition.

• Added XOSL V1.1.5. Thanks to Maro for his enthusiastic suggestion.

  I find it almost inexcusable that XOSL is not included in the UBCD distribution! ;-) It's my personal favourite boot manager, unbeaten in visual appearance and user-friendliness. Suddenly it's a dead project, but their last release still works great. It requires a FAT partition to install, but the setup/restore tool is a big plus (makes it easy to recover the boot manager without reinstallation whenever Windows setup wiped the MBR). The 1.1.5 version reincludes SmartBootManager and Ranish, but I don't think that hurts anyone, even if these tools should already have five dups on the UniversalBootCD.

• Updated McAfeee virus signatures to 12 Jan 2005.

Dec 3, 2004

3.1

• Fixed startup.bat for Partition Resizer and TestDisk. Thanks to Jan Stocker for the information.
• Fixed the mixup of QNX modem and network bootdisks in others.scn. Thanks to Darren for the information.
• Compressed wipecmos.com with Crunch to avoid false alarm from NAV. Thanks to Yuval Melamed for the suggestion.
• Updated F-Prot to V3.15b. Updated F-Prot virus definitions to 30 Nov 2004. Thanks to various people for informing me about this.
• Updated McAfee virus definitions to 1 Dev 2004.
• Updated MemTest86+ to V1.40. Thanks to ckit for the update.
• Updated TestDisk to V5.5. Thanks to Christophe Grenier for the update.
• Removed redundant TestDisk image from "images" subdirectory.
• Updated MemTest86 to V3.2. Thanks to ckit for the update.
• Updated IBM Drive Fitness Test to V4.00. Thanks to ckit for the update.
• Updated GAG to V4.5d. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated Partition Saving to V2.91. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.

• Added MSRRC (Bart's Network Disk on FreeDOS) V3.18. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the contribution.

  RRC means Remote Recover by Winternals (commercial). Fdmsrrc is prepared to handle RRC. End-user may just add his rrcdos.exe to A:\Bin on the image to use this. Otherwise it will just print a text about RRC. (there is no commercial stuff added; end-user might want to do that)

• Updated NwDsk to V3.18. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update.

  Kernel and memory managers have been updated. Also a new version of SHSUCDX (for CDROM -reading) has been added. I decreased all timed dialogs from 5 to 3 secs and I skipped a few that were not really needed. Also a new UDMA-driver was added (for fast HD access).

• Updated FreeDOS boot image. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update.

  The FreeDOS boot disk now displays a text before launching the selected App. The end-user may opt to quit here (no App, just dos-prompt), to browse (no App, but launch VC on CDROM-drive), or launch the App (default choice). The text is in A:\Etc\Ubcdinfo.txt. Replace it with your own (or edit it). The timeout can be set in A:\Global.set by "UBCD_TI=20" (for 20secs reading).

• Updated memdisk to V2.11. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the suggestion.
• Updated PCISniffer to V1.3. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility to V7.2.20041115. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated CMOSPWD to V4.4.

Nov 3, 2004

3.0

• This version of UBCD uses CDShell V2.0.11 and BCDW V1.50z.

• Added INSERT for UBCD. Thanks to Charles Appel for his contribution.

  UBCD Insert is intended for the advanced user that is already familiar with Linux and preferably Knoppix. It is enhanced with modules to allow us to provide you with additional software not part of the base distribution. All that you need to do is download a module from Sourceforge, add it to your /INSERT directory, burn and you're ready to go. If you intend to use INSERT, please take some time to reviews its documentation first.

• Use freedos.img to launch supporting DOS applications via BCDW parameter. The reduces the number of DOS images to be supported, aggregates updates and patches, and improves maintainability. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for contributing the FreeDOS image.
• Added PTS DiskEditor V1.04. Thanks to Valden Longhurst for the suggestion.

• Added NwDsk (NetWare Boot Disk). Thanks to Erwin Veermans for providing the boot image.

  Here's a list of what this boot disk can do: USB drive/cdroms autoinstalled UDMA autoinstalled CDROM (atapi) autoinstalled international Keyboard support PartMan (ranish), BootPart, Aefdisk on board. Linux EXT2 supported LFN supported (Doslfn) Dos VNCviewer on board IP-Print Server (LPD) on board Volkov Commander on board many utils on board This diskette can also just serve as a plug'n play packet-driver layer for the non-Netware-minded for running WATTCP services like the included IP-printserver and VNCViewer. Other people use it in combination with Citrix DOS-ICA client to turn your old 486 PC into a XP workstation (connecting to Citrix MetaFrame).

• Added Arachne boot image with built-in network driver support. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for providing the boot image.

  Message from Erwin: When your NIC is not autodetected run WHAT1632 on the diskette (included) and email me the name(s) of the 16-bit drivers you need (or check on my site for driver downloads). When your NIC is detected and you have a DHCP server in your LAN you need not to do anything until it autolaunches Arachne's setup. Choose packet-driver and DHCP and start browsing. After quiting Arachne just restart it with "arachne".

• All images loaded with memdisk are now compressed with gzip. To modify an image compressed with gzip, you need to unzip it first. The application you use to extract the image itself (after you've unzipped it) may not be able to read the file unless you change the extension, so you may have to rename the file to include the .img extension. Once your finished modifying the image you should zip it with the following command (or equivalent) 'gzip -9 image.img', then rename to match it's original name (e.g. image.gz).
• Updated RIP to V3.1.
• Updated Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to 040818. Thanks to Charles Appel for the update.
• Updated BasicLinux to Ver 3.2. Thanks to Reinhard Max for contributing the boot image.
• Added !BIOS V3.2 to DOSAPPS. Thanks to Rafal Rajko-Nenow for suggesting this.
• Added freeware version of XXCOPY V2.85.8. Thanks to Len Steele and Andrew Allen for the suggestion.
• Added NetCopy V0.2.
• Added Madboot Floppy. Thanks to Ken for the suggestion.
• Added mprime V23.5.2. Thanks to Adrian Stanciu for his help on this.
• Added Salvation HDD Scan and Repair Ver 3.0. Thanks to Matt Fidler for the suggestion.
• Removed Bart's CDROM and MSNET boot disks from UBCD because they use Win98, which is commerical. Thanks to Jacco de Leeuw for the suggestion.
• Updated memtest86+ to V1.26. Thanks to SebastianG for the update.
• Updated SeaTools Desktop to V3.00.07en. Thanks to SebastianG for the update.
• Added Gateway's GWSCAN V3.15 and V5.09. Thanks to Gary Merriman for the suggestions.
• Updated Active@ KillDisk Free Edition to V3.1. Thanks to SebastianG for the update.
• Updated GAG to V4.4. Thanks to SebastianG for the update.
• Updated NSSI to V0.58.3. Thanks to SebastianG for the update.
• Added DOSRDP V2.0/XP. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for contributing the floppy image.
• Added TestMem IV. Thanks to Dan Doomy for the suggestion.
• Updated Gujin to V0.9. Thanks to SebastianG for the update.

Aug 1, 2004

2.4

• Added image writer boot disk. Thanks to Adrian Stanciu for contributing this piece of original work.
• Added QNX Demo Browser V4.00 (network and modem version). Thanks to Tristan Larouanne for suggesting this, and supplying the disk images.
• Tried switching to CD Shell 2.0.17b, but reverted because bcdw V1.50z does not work with the new version of CD Shell.
• Switched to using bcdw for booting up Drive Fitness Test. This seems to improve compatibility with older systems.
• Updated TestDisk to V5.3. Thanks to Christophe Grenier for the update.
• Added PCISniffer V1.2. Thanks to Reik Keutterling for the suggestion.
• Added Disk Editor V3.0. Thanks to Domenis Riccardo for the suggestion.
• Updated Arachne to V1.75. Thanks to Jambin for the update.
• Updated Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility yo V7.1.20040716. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated Partition Saving to V2.90. Thanks for SebastienG for the update.
• Added Lucifer V1.0. Thanks to Raphael Högger for the update.
• Updated Drive Fitness Test to V3.73. Thanks to Rainer Stroebel for the update.
• Updated Parallel Port Detection and Test Utilities to V1.45. Thanks to Jambin for the update.
• Updated UniFlash to V1.37. Thanks to Jambin for the update.
• Updated Astra to V4.21. Thanks to Jambin for the update.
• Updated SeaTools Desktop to V3.00.06en. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated MemTest86+ to V1.20. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated g4u to V1.17.
• Updated DLG Diagnostic to 5.04c. Thanks to Jeremy Stanton for the update.
• Updated F-Prot to V3.15. Thanks to Jean-Marc for the update.
• Updated PCI to V0.49B. Thanks to Jambin for the update.
• Updated F-Prot virus definitions to 28 Jul 2004.
• Updated McAfee virus definitions to 28 Jul 2004.
• Moved PCI to DOSAPPS.
• Moved CMOS password recovery to DOSAPPS.

June 1, 2004

2.31

• Fixed an error in cdshell.ini. Thanks to everyone for alerting me to it so quickly.

May 30, 2004

2.3

• Added UBCD URL to menus in evil plot for world domination. Ra ha ha ha!
• Added "Drop to console" function for accessing CDShell commands directly.
• Stopped using F11 and F12 because they do not work on some machines.
• Re-added older version of DocMem (V1.45a) because Ohno complained that the newer version does not work on his machine.
• Added CPUBurn V1.00. Thanks to Adrian Stanciu for contributing the boot disk image.
• Updated MemTest86 to V3.1a.
• Updated TestDisk to V5.2. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated RIP to V3.0. Thanks to SebastienG and Jamblin for the update.
• Updated F-Prot virus scanner to V3.14e. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated F-Prot virus definition files to 23 May 2004.
• Updated McAfee virus scanner to V4.32.0.
• Updated McAfee virus definition files to 26 May 2004.
• Updated PowerMax to V4.09. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated SPFDisk to 2000-03q. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated Darik's Boot and Nuke to V1.0.3. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated Drive Fitness Test to V3.68. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated IBM/Hitachi Feature Tool to V1.94. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• Updated AIDA16 to V2.14. Thanks to Martin Paquet for the update. AIDA16 has been discontinued, so this is the last version.
• Added some DOS utilities to the DOSAPPS directory. Thanks to Oliver Glahe for contributing them.

List of DOS utilities: 3dbench - tool for testing older vga-cards on their 3d features bios - BIOS password finder, BIOS information display etc. cdbench - cd-drive benchmark tool cdcap - ata/scsi-drives features display tool cdidenti - cd-media information tool ctcache - displays some cache/dram configs of mainboard chipsets ctram - ram-check utility

• Added FIPS V2.0. Thanks to Winslow for suggesting this.
• Added GAG V4.3. Thanks to Winslow for suggesting this.
• Added DELCMOS to the DOSAPPS directory. Thanks to Andre Tertling for contributing this.

Apart from the BIOS password cracker (which didn't work for my computers, doh), I'm missing a tool to zap the CMOS RAM. I wrote such a little cutey ages ago and would like to contribute it to the collection. It just needs a plain DOS environment because it requires free access to port registers (that's why it works in Win9x but not in NT/2K/XP) to wipe the CMOS RAM content. Short instruction: Boot plain DOS (HIMEM.SYS won't do any harm) Run program Answer the safety question ("Are you sure?") Reboot your computer Go to the BIOS setup Load the BIOS defaults (important!) Reset ESCD data (in most cases it's called "Reset configuration" in the PCI setup, alternatives are "Clear NVRAM" and similar options) Configure time, date and BIOS options Save the new configuration Reboot

• Added NTFSDOS and CDROM access to File Maven and Dos Navigator. Thanks to Mani Manni for the suggestion.
• Added LFNTOOLS to DOSAPPS directory.
• Added PC INSPECTOR e-maxx V0.95 Build 775. Thanks to Christoph Hoffmann for the suggestion.
• Added PC INSPECTOR clone maxx V0.95 Build 769. Thanks to Christoph Hoffmann for the suggestion.
• Added Disk Manager v9.56a. Thanks to CyberRax for the suggestion.
• Added Diskman V4.0 Release 1b. Thanks to James Clark for the suggestion.
• Added BootPart V2.5. Thanks to John Phillips for the suggestion.
• Added MAXLLF V1.1. Thanks to Mike Kuketz for the suggestion.
• Added Parallel Port Detection and Test Utilities V1.1.
• Added ASTRA V4.20. Thanks to sysinfolab.com for the suggestion.
• Added UniFlash V1.34. Thanks to Raoul Volfoni for the suggestion.
• Added WIPECMOS V1.2 to DOSAPPS directory.
• Added CPUBENCH to DOSAPPS directory.
• Added Arachne WWW Browser V1.73. Thanks to Cliff Matthews for the suggestion.
• Added Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility v6.5.20040203. Thanks to Levent Pekcan for the suggestion.
• Updated Seagate DiscWizard 2003 to V10.45.06. Thanks to SebastienG and Jamblin for the update.
• Updated g4u to Ver 1.15. Thanks to SebastienG for the update.
• It no longer seems to be possible to run the new version of BasicLinux (V3.2) from a single floppy disk. So we will continue to support the old V2.x version, but not update to the new version.
• Added Active@ Partition Recovery V2.1.1. Thanks to Uttam for the suggestion.
• Fixed a bug in fdauto.bat in fprot.img. Thanks to Michael Smith for the tip off!
• Updated MemTest86+ to V1.15. Thanks to Jean Marc for the update.
• Updated Fujitsu Diagnostic Tools to V6.20. Thanks to Jamblin for the update.
• Updated Hutil to V1.19. Thanks to Jamblin for the update.
• Updated Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to 040116. Thanks to Jamblin for the update.
• Updated NSSI to V0.58.1. Thanks to SebastienG and Jamblin for the update.
• Added Samsung Disk Manager V10. Thanks to Manas Mitra for suggesting this.
• Fixed Western Digital's DLG Diagnostic V4.x and V5.x so that they will run on older machines.

Mar 15, 2004

2.21

• Fixed a couple of errors in cdshell.ini. Thanks to SebastienG for spotting them.
• Fixed EditBINI. Thanks to Jeremy for first alerting me to the problem.
• Adrian Stanciu suggested that the size of the final ISO could be decreased by zeroing all the unused bytes. Well, I couldn't follow his instructions exactly since he runs Linux, but I was able to do it for some of the disk images under Windows by writing a simple C program and working on images that I could mount using VFD. The result was quite satisfactory. It managed to shave a couple of megabytes off the final 7z archive.
• Switched to self-extracting archive of ISO image.

Mar 11, 2004

2.2

• Switched from BootScriptor to CDShell.
• Switched to using function keys and number keys to support different keyboards. Due to this change, third-level menus were added in some cases.
• Added memtest86+ V1.11. Thanks to everyone who emailed me about this.
• Updated TestDisk to Ver 5.1. Thanks to Christophe Grenier for informing me.
• Added Darik's Boot and Nuke Ver 1.0.2. Thanks to JBob and Paul for suggesting this.
• Updated g4u to Ver 1.14. Thanks to SebastienG for the info.
• Updated RIP to V2.6. Thanks to SebastienG for the info.
• Added FreeDOS boot disk. Thanks to Steen for contributing the boot disk image.
• Updated DFT to V3.60. Thanks to Mike for suggesting this.
• Added Maxtor's MaxBlast 3 Ver 3.6.
• Added Seagate's DiscWizard 2003.
• Added Seagate's SeaTools Desktop V2.01.05.
• Added Western Digital's Data Lifeguard V11.0.
• Added Offline NT Password & Registry Editor to 040114, and added SCSI drivers as well. Thanks to Sebastian Ratz and Serca Brest for suggesting this.
• Updated IBM Feature Tool to V1.92.
• Updated McAfee Virus Definition File to 10 Mar 2004. Thanks to Raymond Abraham for the tip.
• Updated F-Prot Virus Definition File to 10 Mar 2004.
• Moved larger DOS programs such as McAfee VirusScan and F-Prot VirusScan to CD.
• Added MBRtool V2.2.100. Thanks to Phil Cieplik for the suggestion.
• Switch to self-executable 7zip format to reduce size. Thanks to cmatt77 and numerous other people for suggesting this.
• Added ATA Password Tool V1.1. Thanks to Steffen Bergner for suggesting this.
• Added MBRWork V1.07b. Thanks to Xero Grid for suggesting this.
• Added PCI V0.48b. Thanks to Craig Hart for the suggestion.
• Reduced overall size of CD by using lower-capacity floppy sizes for certain programs. Thanks to cmatt77 for the suggestion.
• Updated Ranish Partition Manager to V2.44. Thanks to SebastienG for the tip.
• Renamed SavePart to Partition Saving.
• Updated DocMem RAM Diagnostic to V2.1b. Thanks to SebastienG for the tip.
• There is no malicious popups on the Partition Resizer website, so I am putting the website link back. Thanks to SebastienG for the feedback.
• Updated MemTest to V3.1.
• Updated SPFDisk to 2000-03p. Thanks to SebastienG for the tip.
• Updated HDClone to V2.0. Thanks to SebastienG for the info.
• Updated Trinux to V0.89. Thanks to Winslow for the info.
• Documentation has been updated by Scott D. Wares.

Jan 5, 2004

2.1

• Added System Speed Test 32 Ver 4.78. Thanks to Igor Schein for the suggestion.
• Updated AIDA16 to Ver 2.12.
• Added Bart's Network Boot Disk. Thanks to Alan Loughlin for the suggestion.
• Added Bart's CDROM Boot Disk.
• Added Bootable CD Wizard Ver 1.5c module for BootScriptor.
• Added McAfee Antivirus Scanner Ver 4.14.0. Thanks to Oburs for suggesting this.
• Added DocMem RAM Diagnostic Ver 1.45a. Thanks to Oburs for suggesting this.
• Revert Drive Fitness Test back to Ver 3.50 because of complaints that Ver 3.51 is buggy.
• Added PC-Config Ver 9.33.
• Added File Maven Ver 3.5a. Thanks to Philip Smith for suggesting this.
• Added Trinux 0.80rc2. Thanks to Qazzaq for suggesting this.
• Added SMARTUDM Version 2.00.
• Documentation has been painstakingly updated by Scott D. Wares.

Nov 23, 2003

2.0

• Switched to a two-level menu format to accommodate more utilities on the CD and allow for better categorization.
• Moved boot images to \images subdirectory.
• Added MD5 checksum and version number to ISO filename, suggested by Luke Seubert.
• Updated AIDA16 to V2.11
• Added Smart BootManager. Thanks to Jim Goodman for suggesting this.
• Added Active@ KillDisk Free Edition. Thanks to Peter Bartfai for his recommendation.
• Updated SavePart to Ver 2.80.
• Added Maxtor's AMSET utility. Thanks to Martin Pawlack for suggesting this.
• Switched diagnostic tool for Western Digital HDD to DLG Diagnostic V5.03. Thanks to Kent Raymond for the suggestion.
• Added Samsung's HUTIL utility. Thanks to Lars-Göan Thieme for suggesting this.
• Updated Freesco. From Scott D. Wares: "I have added to the Freesco image the following packages: iptraf - allows you to watch network trafic and stats; junkbuster - ad filtering proxy server. More space used on the floppy but I loaded the files I could into the Linux file system image inside. Theres still space for users to install packages onto the settings + package floppy and its pretty easy to do. Some info about installing modules (ie drivers) from the Freesco image: If you boot the Freesco image you will find the modules (ie drivers) under /lib/modules and below. You can copy the drivers you need like so: cp /lib/modules/nic/eepro100.gz /mnt/bootdev/router/drv. You may want to use pci_scan.gz and/or isa_scan.gz to detect plug-and-play devices like your network card(s). They are also under /lib/modules. You can change to the directory by typing this: cd /lib/modules."
• Updated Recovery Is Possible to V2.2. Thanks to Gordan Darling for suggesting this.
• Added EditBINI. Thanks to Bjorn Simonsen for the suggestion.
• Added Seagate's UATA100 utility.
• Added Free FDISK. Thanks to Pete for the suggestion.
• Added DOS Navigator Ver 3.7.0.
• Added NSSI Ver 0.57.4.
• Updated Drive Fitness Test to Ver 3.51.
• Special thanks to Tóth István for converting the following boot images to FreeDOS: presizer, samsung, savepart, xfdisk, fprot, spfdisk, fujitsu, testdisk, aida.

Oct 19, 2003

1.7

• There was a bug in the login script so that the system will not automatically boot the first harddisk after 300 seconds of inactivity. This has been fixed. Thanks to Troy from Australia for supplying the fix, and a few others for reporting the problem. I have also added a short note to remind people that the CD will automatically boot the first harddisk. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to add some sort of countdown timer, which would have been really cool.
• Added FAQ and documentation, AUTORUN.INF to automatically launch the documentation on Windows systems, and added an icon for the CD. All this would not have been possible without the painstaking effort of Scott D. Wares. The credit is totally his. Thank you!
• Added BasicLinux, thanks again to Scott D. Wares. He is unofficially the resident Linux guru now. :-)
• Added Gujin, as recommended by Scott D. Wares.
• Added Freesco, as recommended by Scott D. Wares. In his own words, "I have added all the modules from the modules package from the Freesco site... smbfs, and many network cards. This will allow you to use one machine to connect to the Internet and share the connection with all other computers in the local network. I'd use this to connect a networked office w/o shared Internet to the Internet so I could apply security updates to all the machines in the office quickly. I could also use it as a demo tool when doing proposals or to quickly restore Internet access to a office when there main Internet access server is down for repairs." He also said: "Your settings and extra software packages are stored on a DOS-formatted floppy. This can be the same disk you save your basic Linux internet and mail settings on... The small zip file I added under tools on the UBCD... these files should be copied to a DOS-formatted floppy. After the UBCD menu comes up, just insert the floppy and select Freesco."
• Updated F-Prot virus definition files to the most recent.

Sep 22, 2003

1.6

• I missed out the key mappings for booting from the floppy drive and hard disk. Thanks to Guillaume to alerting me and contributing the code to fix the oversight!
• P J Wooledge contributed his version of F-Prot boot disk which expands into a ramdisk upon bootup. This allows the full F-Prot to work from UBCD (previously macro virus definitions were been disabled so that everything can fit onto a 2.88MB virtual floppy boot image). Thanks!
• Added SPFDISK (Special FDISK). Thanks to P J Wooledge again for the tip!

Sep 8, 2003

1.5

• Updated to the Boot Scriptor environment. It provides a nice scripting environment with two ways of booting disk images (MemDisk and DiskEmu), and makes it real easy to create a color startup menu.
• Added Tom's Boot Disk to UBCD. My previous problem with booting up the Tom's Boot Disk image has been resolved using DiskEmu.
• I finally got Windows Memory Diagnostic to work properly under the UBCD by using DiskEmu for booting the disk image.
• Added the g4u HDD cloning utility, thanks to DiskEmu again.
• Added HDClone (Free Edition) using DiskEmu.
• Added Active NTFS Reader for DOS. Thanks to N. Vigot for the tip!
• Added TestDisk. Thanks to Christophe Grenier for the tip!

Aug 24, 2003

1.4

• Added Windows Memory Diagnostic. I still have problems getting this to work, but Michelangelo confirms it works for his system, so I am adding this in first. If there are enough complaints, I will remove it later.
• Previously, F-Prot only works on FAT16 partition. I created a Win98 boot floppy using BFD, and threw in the read-only freeware version of NTFSDOS, so now F-Prot should work with FAT32 and NTFS partitions as well.
• Added XFDISK. Thanks to Michelangelo for the tip.
• Updated to DFT Ver 3.50. Thanks to Jeremy Stanton for the tip.

Aug 10, 2003

1.3

• Added Diagnostic Tool Ver 6.10 for Fujitsu HDD. Thanks to Kevin O'Reilly for this tip.
• Added SHDIAG Ver 1.25 for Samsung HDD. Thanks to Richard for this tip.
• Add Feature Tool Ver 1.90 for IBM/Hitachi HDD. Thanks to Ulrich Sibiller for this tip.
• Updated AIDA16 to Ver 2.08.
• The main menu has been reorganized to partition the tools into logical sections.

Aug 3, 2003

1.2

• Updated PowerMax to Ver 4.06. This adds support for embedded ATAPI EIDE devices with their own BIOS - eg. Promise Ultra and Promise FaxtTrak, Highpoint Tech, etc. Thanks to Kent Raymond for this tip.
• Added Partition Resizer.

Jul 27, 2003

1.1

• Added Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, Ranish Partition Manager, AIDA16, F-Prot, Autoclave and SavePart.

Jun 1, 2003

1.0

• First release.